ANNA MOSER (b. New York) is a writer and artist based in West Sussex. She has previously taught at the University of Sussex, New York University and the Fashion Institute of Technology.
Moser received her BA in Literature and Art from Yale University, her MPhil in Criticism and Culture from the University of Cambridge, and her PhD in English Literature from NYU. In 2010, she attended the Yale Norfolk School of Art.
Her essays and reviews have been published in both academic and popular forums, including diacritics, Effects, the Verso blog, and The Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry. Her poetry pamphlet Improbable Furnishings: A Catalogue was published in April 2025 by Earthbound Press. A first academic monograph Held by Form: Feminism, Poetics, Critical Practice is forthcoming in Fall 2026 from the University of Chicago Press Thinking Literature series.
Her paintings and drawings acknowledge a formal minimalist and color theory legacy which they also renegotiate by mining the possibilities of imperfection and illusionistic surface.