Thylias moss biography for kids pictures

Thylias Moss born February 27, , in Cleveland, Ohio is an American poet, writer, experimental filmmaker, sound artist and playwright of African-American , Native American , and European heritage.

Thylias moss biography for kids pictures: Thylias Moss (born February

Her poetry has been published in a number of collections and anthologies, and she has also published essays, children's books, and plays. She is the pioneer of Limited Fork Theory, a literary theory concerned with the limitations and capacity of human understanding of art. Moss was born Thylias Rebecca Brasier , in a working-class family in Ohio.

Her father chose the name Thylias because he decided she needed a name that had not existed before. According to Moss, her first few years of life were happy, living with her family in the upstairs rooms of an older Jewish couple named Feldman who Moss believes were Holocaust survivors. The Feldmans treated Moss like a grandchild.

When Moss was five, the Feldmans sold their house and moved away. Her parents continued to live in the house with the new homeowners and their year-old daughter, Lytta, who began to baby-sit Moss after school. Moss experienced constant harassment from Lytta and several traumatic events before the age of nine. She later said about her trauma: "I never said a word of this to anybody