Thorpe Moeckel

Thorpe Moeckel is a poet and wilderness enthusiast who spent years guiding trips on rivers and trails throughout the Appalachians. His first book of poems, Odd Botany, won the Gerald Cable Award and was published in 2002. A second collection, Making a Map of the River, was published in 2008. Moeckel's work has appeared in Verse, Orion, Shenandoah, Open City, Rivendell, Virginia Quarterly Review, and Field, among others. He teaches in the MFA Program at Hollins University and lives with his family on a small farm near the James River in Western Virginia.

Published work

Making a Map of the River (Iris Books, March 2008); Odd Botany (Silverfish Review Press, March 2001); Meltlines (Van Doren Company, June 2001); The Guessing Land