Author: Daniel Thomas Moran

Daniel Thomas Moran, former Poet Laureate of Suffolk County, New York, born in New York City on March 9, 1957, is the author of twelve volumes of poetry, the most recent of which, In the Kingdom of Autumn, was published by Salmon Poetry in County Clare, Ireland in 2020 and Balance was published in India by Cyberwit.net also in 2020. His previous collections were Here in the Afterlife (2017 Integral Contemporary Literature Press at The University of Bucharest in Romania). Translation by Lidia Vianu, A Shed for Wood (2014 Salmon Poetry), De La Hilo La Willow Pond (2009 Contemporary Literature Press and also by Translation Café at The University of Bucharest translated to Romanian by Iulia Gabriela Anchidin Miron), Nieve de Agosto y otros poemas (2014 Diaz Grey Editores) (translated by Mariela Dreyfus of New York University), Looking for the Uncertain Past, was published by Poetry Salzburg in 2006 at The University of Salzburg in 2006. Other collections include Dancing for Victoria (1991), Gone to Innisfree (1993), Sheltered by Islands (1995), In Praise of August (Canio’s Editions 1999), From HiLo to Willow Pond (Street Press 2002), The Light of City and Sea-An Anthology of Suffolk County Poetry (Street Press 2006 as Editor), The Book of Moran (Asinine Poetry 2007). He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Biological Sciences from Stony Brook University (1979) and a Doctorate in Dental Surgery from Howard University (1983). He has read widely at bookstores, libraries and universities throughout New York, New England and Long Island and has done readings in Ireland, Italy, Austria, and Great Britain as well as at The Library of Congress and The United Nations. His website is https://www.danielthomasmoran.net/