About the Dead: Poems

About the Author

A B O U T T h e A U T h O r Travis Mossotti received a BA in english and French from Webster University and an MFA in poetry from Southern illinois University—Carbondale. recently a faculty lecturer at the University of California—Santa Cruz, his poetry appears widely in literary journals, including American Literary Review, Antioch Review, Bellevue Liteary Review, Cincinnati Review, Harpur Palate, Poetry Ireland Review, Rattle, Southern Humanities Review, Subtropics and many others. Mossotti was awarded the James hearst Poetry Prize from the North American Review in 2009, and “Decampment,” the opening poem to About the Dead, was adapted to screen in 2010 as an animated short film (www.decampment.com). Mossotti currently resides in St. Louis with his wife, regina. ...