Thylias Moss, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Thylias Moss

American writer

Date of Birth: 27-Feb-1954

Place of Birth: Cleveland, Ohio, United States

Profession: writer, poet

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Thylias Moss (born February 27, 1954, in Cleveland, Ohio) is an American poet, writer, experimental filmmaker, sound artist and playwright, of African-American, Native American, and European heritage, who has published a number of poetry collections, children's books, essays, and multimedia work she calls poems, products of acts of making, related to her work in Limited Fork Theory.
Among her awards are a MacArthur Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Whiting Award, an Artist's Fellowship from the Massachusetts Arts Council, an NEA grant, and the Witter Bynner Poetry Prize. Literary critic Harold Bloom favorably compared her work to that of Anne Carson.