ABOUT
A. F. Moritz has written more than twenty books of poetry, most recently, The Wren (2026), Great Silent Ballad (2024), As Far As You Know (2020), and The Sparrow (2018). Moritz served as the sixth Poet Laureate of Toronto from March 2019 to May 2023. He also served for more than a decade as the Goldring Professor of the Arts and Society at Victoria University at the University of Toronto. Moritz has received the Guggenheim Fellowship, inclusion in the Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets, the Award in Literature of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, and the Ingram Merrill Fellowship. He is a three-time nominee for the Governor General’s Award for English-language poetry (Rest on the Flight into Egypt, The Sentinel, and The New Measures). He was the winner of the ReLit Award for poetry in 2005 for Night Street Repairs. His collection, The Sentinel, a Globe and Mail Top 100 of the Year, won the 2009 Griffin Poetry Prize. And Great Silent Ballad received the 2025 Al & Eurithe Purdy Poetry Prize.
Moritz is also an enthusiastic translator of poetry. His most recent work is Eternities (2026), a translation of Juan Ramón Jiménez’s Eternidades. He has also translated the work of Spanish-language poets Ludwig Zeller and Gilberto Meza, often in collaboration with his wife, Theresa Moritz. The two have also collaborated on several works of non-fiction, including biographies of Stephen Leacock and Emma Goldman.