Albert Frank Moritz (born 15 April 1947) is a United States-born Canadian poet, teacher, and scholar.

[1] Born in Niles, Ohio,[2] Moritz was educated at Marquette University, receiving a Ph.D. for his dissertation on Tennyson.

[3] Since 1975, he has made his home in Toronto, Ontario where he has worked variously as an advertising copywriter and executive, editor, publisher, and university professor.

His poetry has been honored with a 1990 Guggenheim Fellowship, inclusion in the Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets, and numerous other awards.

[10] Passages in his poem reflected on the sugar industry's dark legacy of the use of slave labour.