Edward Moran has been research­ing and writ­ing about Hyam Plutzik’s poet­ry for more than fif­teen years. He served as lit­er­ary advis­er for the 2006 doc­u­men­tary film Hyam Plutzik: Amer­i­can Poet, direct­ed by Oscar nom­i­nee Chris­tine Choy. He has also pre­sent­ed on Plutzik’s work many times at sym­posia spon­sored by the Jew­ish Amer­i­can and Holo­caust Lit­er­a­ture Asso­ci­a­tion, an affil­i­ate of the ALA. Pri­or to that, he served as asso­ciate edi­tor of H W Wilson’s World Authors ref­er­ence series, tak­ing the baton from and con­tin­u­ing the lega­cy of Jew­ish-Amer­i­can poet Stan­ley Kunitz.