Andrew Mossin completed his B.A. in English at Hampshire College and moved to New York City shortly afterward. Living on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, he got his first job as a salesclerk at the recently opened Shakespeare & Co. at 81st and Broadway, after which he worked in arts service organizations in the city (Poets & Writers, The Council of Literary Magazines and Presses) and served under the late Jason Shinder as Managing Director of The Writer's Voice of the West Side YMCA. In 1989, he moved to Philadelphia, where over the next decade he would complete his M.A. in Creative Writing and Ph.D. in English at Temple University. Mossin is currently an Associate Professor in the Intellectual Heritage Program at Temple University and a visiting faculty member in the Language & Thinking Program at Bard College. He lives in Doylestown, PA with his wife, Monica Jacobe.