Laura Moriarty (born April 8, 1952) is an American poet and novelist.
Moriarty was born in Saint Paul, Minnesota, grew up on Cape Cod in Massachusetts and has lived in Northern California since 1966.
[1] She received a Poetry Center Book Award in 1984 for Persia.
She has also been awarded a Gerbode Foundation grant, a residency at the Foundation Royaumont in France, a New Langton Arts Award in Literature and a grant from the Fund for Poetry.
[2] Moriarty has taught at Mills College, and Naropa University, among other places, and served as Deputy Director of Small Press Distribution in Berkeley, California, from 1998 to 2018, remaining on the company board after her retirement.