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About the Author
Honor Moore is a poet and memoirist living and writing in New York City. Her poems and prose have appeared in many journals, including the New Yorker, the Paris Review, Poetry, and the New York Times, where she also served as a theatre critic. Among her many awards are fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. Some of her collections of poetry include Red Shoes, Darling (a finalist for the Laughlin Prize), and Memoir (1988) which was reissued as a “Contemporary Classic” by Carnegie Mellon Press (2018). Her most recent book is A Termination (2024) – a memoir of her pre-Roe abortion and how that act of resistance shaped and allowed who she became – it was a New York Times Editor’s Choice and appeared on best of the year lists at Publisher’s Weekly and the Boston Globe. Our Revolution, a Mother and Daughter at Midcentury (2020), published two days before the Covid 19 lockdown, inspired one of the first virtual book tours; The Bishop’s Daughter (2008) was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, a New York Times Editor’s Choice and LA Times Best Book of the Year; and The White Blackbird, a Life of the Painter Margarett Sargent by her Granddaughter (1996), was a New York Times Notable Book. For Library of America, she edited Women’s Liberation, Feminist Writings that Inspired a Revolution and Still Can! (with Alix Kates Shulman), Poems from the Women’s Movement, and Amy Lowell: Selected Poems. She is presently at work editing the journals of Arthur Miller. She teaches in the MFA creative writing program at the New School. Learn more at honormoore.com.
