TRAVIS MOSSOTTI

Travis Mossotti has worked and volunteered over the last two decades alongside his wife (a carnivore biologist) with U.S. government, university and nonprofit organizations on data collection, animal captures/ releases and lab work for various endangered species recovery efforts all across North America.

 

TRAVIS MOSSOTTI’s previous collections are ABOUT THE DEAD, FIELD STUDY, and NARCISSUS AMERICANA. His fourth collection, RACECAR JESUS, won the Christopher Smart-Joan Alice Poetry Prize and and was Highly Commended for the 2024 Forward Prize in the UK. Mossotti's fifth collection, APOCRYPHAL GENESIS, won the Alma Book Award and also won the 2025 North American Poetry Book Award. He currently serves as Program Coordinator for the Poetry in the Woods and as a Biodiversity Fellow for the Living Earth Collaborative at Washington University. He lives and works in St. Louis.