Mary B. Moore’s full-length books include Amanda Chimera which won the Arthur Smith Prize from Madville Publishing, January 2025; Dear If, a contest finalist, from Orison Books in April 2022; Flicker (Dogfish Head Award, Broadkill River Press, 2016) chosen by Carol Frost et al; and The Book of Snow (Cleveland State UP, 1997). Prize-winning chapbooks are Amanda and the Man Soul (Emrys 2017), and Eating the Light (Sable Books 2016) selected respectively by judges Dorianne Laux, and Allison Joseph. She’s received awards for poems from Birmingham Poetry Review, NELLE, Nimrod, Terrain, and Asheville Poetry Review, and has poems published in Poetry, Prairie Schooner, Birmingham Poetry Review, 32 Poems, Georgia Review, Gettysburg Review, Catamaran, NELLE, Nimrod, Cider Press Review, Fire and Rain–Ecopoetry of California, the Nasty Women Poets’ Anthology, and more. A native Californian with a Ph.D. in Renaissance poetry and prose (University of California, Davis), she taught poetry, Shakespeare and writing at Marshall University. She is married to the philosopher, John Vielkind. They live in Huntington WV. She has one beloved daughter, an attorney, in Northern California, Mary Moore’s home place.
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