Join us on Saturday, November 7, 2026 to celebrate Starlings cofounder, Ansley Moon’s newest poetry collection, Register the Missing (Kaya Press). This special event will include a writing workshop facilitated by Ansley, followed by a brief reading and discussion of their book.

At the heart of Ansley Moon's spare, haunting collection of poems, Register the Missing, is a heartbreaking exploration of the often impossible choices faced by mothers and daughters in a world where over 50 million Indian girls have been lost to female infanticide, feticide and gender-based violence. Interspersed with archival documents and photographs, Moon's poems move deftly between the voices of a widow forced to relinquish her daughter, an orphaned child navigating identity and inherited loss and a chorus of unclaimed girls who remind us that "nothing stays buried, not even a daughter." Whether taking on historical tragedy and erasure or adoption or the mundanity of citizenship paperwork and mornings in a new city, Moon's poetry creates a poignant intervention against cultural silence that reminds us of the possibility of finding yourself at the very moment you thought you were lost.

Ansley Moon (they/them) is the author of the poetry collections Register the Missing (Kaya Press) and How to Bury the Dead  (Black Coffee Press). They are an Asian American adoptee, poet, and educator. A graduate of the MFA program at The New School and a recipient of a Barbara Deming Memorial Fund Grant, Moon’s work has appeared in Agni, Hyphen Magazine, Southern Humanities Review, among other publications. Moon writes the Teach this Poem series for the Academy of American Poets, and is a Co-Founding member of The Starlings Collective, a BIPOC adoptee writers and artists collective. For more, visit www.ansleymoon.com