Thylias Moss

Born in 1954, during a blizzard, in Cleveland Ohio at Mount Sinai Hospital, Thylias Moss began to write when she was seven years old, and continued, ultimately graduating from Oberlin College in 1981, and from Grad School at the University of New Hampshire in 1983, same year that my first volume of poetry: Hosiery Seams on a Bowlegged Woman was published. Only 4 feet 10 inches tall, she combats this vertical challenge with making big, and has published 10 books, encouraged by winning $25.00 in a Cleveland Public Library Contest for "The Problem with Loving a Ghost of a Sailor" when she was 17 years old--best $25.00 ever!

She has won many awards, including: "The Dewars Profiles Performance Artist's Award in Poetry" for "Poem for My Mother's and other makers of Asafetida" several Pushcart Prizes, and multiple inclusions in the Best American Poetry Series. She has also won a Whiting Writer's Award, an NEA Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a MacArthur Fellowship in 1996. Currently she is involved in limited forking.

She was most pleased with her inclusion in the film: "The United States of Poetry" shown on PBS. Clips from my inclusion are among my videos: "9:08 Am - Nagging Misunderstanding: and "Green Light and Gamma Ways".

The "Fork" video was made to accompany my essay in "One Word" --although I mostly wrote about "forking" my essay is entitled "sixpack"

You can see my video "poams" --products of acts of making on the forker girl youtube channel. and if you search for "limited fork" online, whatever you find is likely about me.'

Among my photos is a photo of me and Mr. Bob Holman). "New Kiss Horizon" is really non-fiction about this man and I ; I am working on a sequel to "New Kiss Horizon"and it is nonfiction too. This author loves her collaborator Mr. Bob Holman very much!

For seven years now, I have been in Love with Bob. I fell in love with him on our first date in Chicago where we met in 1990.