A. F. Moritz

Albert Frank Moritz (born April 15, 1947) is a poet, teacher, and scholar.

Born in Niles, Ohio, Moritz was educated at Marquette University. Since 1975, he has made his home in Toronto, Ontario where he has worked variously as an advertising copywriter and executive, editor, publisher, and university professor. His poetry has been honored with a 1990 Guggenheim Fellowship, inclusion in the Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets, and numerous other awards. He currently teaches at the University of Toronto.

He is married to Theresa Moritz, with whom he has collaborated on a number of books.

Bibliography

Here - 1975
Signs and Certainties - 1979
Black Orchid - 1981
Between the Root and the Flower - 1982
The Visitation - 1983
The Tradition - 1986
Song of Fear - 1992
The Ruined Cottage - 1993
Ciudad interior - 1993
Phantoms in the Ark - 1994 (with Ludwig Zeller)
Mahoning - 1994
Night Street Repairs
Early Poems
Conflicting Desire
The End of the Age
Rest on the Flight into Egypt - 1999
A Houseboat on the Styx
The Sentinel (House of Anansi Press, 2008) - winner of the 2009 Canadian Griffin Poetry Prize)

Canada Illustrated
America the Picturesque
The Pocket Canada: A Guidebook - 1982
Leacock: A Biography - 1985 (with Theresa Moritz)
The Oxford Literary Guide to Canada - 1987 (with Theresa Moritz)
The World's Most Dangerous Woman: A New Biography of Emma Goldman (with Theresa Moritz)
Stephen Leacock: His Remarkable Life (with Theresa Moritz)