Stanley Moss was born in 1925 in Woodhaven, New York. At age seventeen, he enlisted in the US Navy. He kicked around Trinity College and Yale University, worked as a counterspy for Local 65, sang in a band and played the bass, worked at New Directions, for Botteghe Oscure in Rome, taught in Rome and Barcelona, was poetry editor of Book Week and New American Review, and is an Old Master dealer of mostly Spanish and Italian paintings, many of which he has discovered. Self-taught in art history, he has sold pictures to the world's major museums. He is publisher and editor of Sheep Meadow Press. Moss's poems have appeared in the pages of the New Yorker, the American Poetry Review, the Times Literary Supplement, PN Review, the Guardian, Tikkun, the Yale Review, the New York Review of Books, the New York Times, Reflections, and the Los Angeles Times, to name a few. He lives on a farm in Dutchess Country, New York, with his wife, the forgiving Jane Moss.
