Travis Mossotti

Mossotti was awarded the 2011 May Swenson Poetry Award for his first collection of poems ABOUT THE DEAD (USU Press, 2011), and his second collection FIELD STUDY won the 2013 Melissa Lanitis Gregory Poetry Prize (Bona Fide Books, 2014). His third collection NARCISSUS AMERICANA was selected as the winner of the 2018 Miller Williams Prize (University of Arkansas Press, 2018) and his fourth collection RACECAR JESUS was selected as the winner of the 2022 Christopher Smart - Joan Alice Poetry Prize (Eyewear, 2023). Mossotti has also published two chapbooks, and recent poems of his have appeared in issues of the EPOCH, Iron Horse Literary Review, Columbia Poetry Review, New American Writing, Poetry Ireland Review, Rattle, and elsewhere. Mossotti teaches in the writing program at Webster University and works as a Product Owner of the Research Management System at Washington University. He was named a Biodiversity Fellow at Washington University in 2018 and has served as Poet-in-Residence at the Endangered Wolf Center in St. Louis since 2012.