Neli Moody is a writer and a lecturer at San Jose State University, where she received her M.F.A. in Creative
Writing. She was born in Cincinnati, Ohio and has been writing poems since she was nine years old. She aims
for a painterly specificity of color and musicality. The poems must sing. They express the vision of a person
who has lived in several worlds at once, some by birth, some by choice.
Insatiably curious, Neli has studied, among many subjects, literature, music, art history, architecture, Latin,
French and Italian, ethnic folklore and dance, geology and religion. She plays the piano, violin, and guitar,
has appeared onstage acting, singing, and dancing, and has been involved in professional theatre for 32 years
in many capacities.
Neli won nearly every poetry award available as a student at San Jose State. Her work has appeared in Reed,
Brick and Mortar Review, Appalachian Times and Konch Magazine.
Neli has read her poetry throughout the San Francisco Bay and Santa Cruz areas. She is an adventurer and has
sailed the Caribbean,rock climbed, flown, scuba dived. She is a resident of the Central Coast. Favorite
pastimes include gourmet cooking, Polynesian dancing, art history and music. Current interesting reads:
Anything that illumines the various lives of people not like herself, and work by Dylan Thomas or Derek
Walcott. There are so many wonderful poems to re-read and discover. I return to ones like "Love Calls Us to
the Things of This World" by Richard Wilbur again and again. I gravitate towards the Southern poets, the
Caribbean, and the Irish poets.
Writing. She was born in Cincinnati, Ohio and has been writing poems since she was nine years old. She aims
for a painterly specificity of color and musicality. The poems must sing. They express the vision of a person
who has lived in several worlds at once, some by birth, some by choice.
Insatiably curious, Neli has studied, among many subjects, literature, music, art history, architecture, Latin,
French and Italian, ethnic folklore and dance, geology and religion. She plays the piano, violin, and guitar,
has appeared onstage acting, singing, and dancing, and has been involved in professional theatre for 32 years
in many capacities.
Neli won nearly every poetry award available as a student at San Jose State. Her work has appeared in Reed,
Brick and Mortar Review, Appalachian Times and Konch Magazine.
Neli has read her poetry throughout the San Francisco Bay and Santa Cruz areas. She is an adventurer and has
sailed the Caribbean,rock climbed, flown, scuba dived. She is a resident of the Central Coast. Favorite
pastimes include gourmet cooking, Polynesian dancing, art history and music. Current interesting reads:
Anything that illumines the various lives of people not like herself, and work by Dylan Thomas or Derek
Walcott. There are so many wonderful poems to re-read and discover. I return to ones like "Love Calls Us to
the Things of This World" by Richard Wilbur again and again. I gravitate towards the Southern poets, the
Caribbean, and the Irish poets.
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