She holds a BA in English and an MFA in poetry from San Diego State University. Her poems and reviews have appeared in Ploughshares; Superstition Review; Yellow Medicine Review; Suisun Valley Review; Third Wednesday; Corium Magazine; Grasslimb; An Island of Egrets Haiku Anthology; scent of rain Haiku Anthology; A Year In Ink Vol. 4 & 5; San Diego Poetry Annual; Charlotte: A Journal of Art and Literature; Web del Sol Review of Books; and elsewhere. Moniz is a co-founding editor of The California Journal of Poetics (www.californiapoetics.org). She divides her time between the Bay Area and San Diego.