Ansley Moon is an educator, poet and adoptee who lives in Brooklyn, New York. She is the author of the poetry collection, How to Bury the Dead (Black Coffee Press, 2011), and she has received awards and fellowships from Kundiman and Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, among others. She is working on her most recent collection of poetry, Girl Country. This collection has been a finalist for the Pleiades Press Poetry Prize, the Slope Editions Poetry, and more. She also serves as a Curriculum Consultant for the Academy of American Poets.