Black Swan

by Mihaela Moscaliuc

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This piece is part of our Fall 2018 print issue.

Mihaela Moscaliuc

Mihaela Moscaliuc is the author of the poetry collections Immigrant Model and Father Dirt, translator of Carmelia Leonte’s The Hiss of the Viper, and also Clay and Star, forthcoming, and well is editor of Insane Devotion: On the Writing of Gerald Stern. She teaches at Monmouth University, NJ.

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