David N. Moolten is the author of three books of poetry, Plums & Ashes (Northeastern University, 1994), which won the Samuel French Morse Poetry Prize, and Especially Then (David Robert Books, 2005).  His third book, Primitive Mood recently won the T.S. Eliot Prize from Truman State University Press, and was published in the fall of 2009.  Poems by David Moolten have appeared in Poetry, The Georgia Review, The Kenyon Review, The Southwest Review, and Epoch, among other journals and reviews.   His work has been widely anthologized and his honors include a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowship and a Pushcart Prize.  His influences are manifold and varied, and include many modernist poets, with those from the midwestern and southern United States having affected him the most. Moolten, a physician specializing in transfusion medicine, was educated at Harvard College and the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.  He lives, writes, and practices in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.   

Samuel French Morse Poetry Prize (Northeastern University Press)
T.S. Eliot Prize (Truman State University Press)
Pushcart Prize
Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowship In Poetry