Honor Moore

Honor Moore is an American writer, born on October 28, 1945. She is renowned for her work in poetry, creative nonfiction, and plays. Moore teaches at The New School in the MFA program for creative nonfiction, serving as a part-time associate teaching professor.

Her memoir, The Bishop's Daughter, delves into her relationship with her father, Bishop Paul Moore. The book was acclaimed as an Editor's Choice by The New York Times, a Favorite Book of 2008 by the Los Angeles Times, and was selected by the National Book Critics Circle as part of their "Good Reads" recommended reading list. It was also a finalist for the 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography and the Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Literature.

Moore is the author of Our Revolution; The Bishop’s Daughter, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; The White Blackbird, a New York Times Notable Book; and three poetry collections. She resides in New York City.

Her work has featured in prestigious publications such as The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The American Scholar, Salmagundi, and The New Republic. She edited Amy Lowell: Selected Poems and Poems from the Women’s Movement for the Library of America. Moore has served as poet in residence at Wesleyan and the University of Richmond, and held visiting professorships at the Columbia School of the Arts and the University of Iowa.

At a young age, her play Mourning Pictures was produced on Broadway, earning her a fellowship from the New York State Council on the Arts. Her book The White Blackbird, A Life of the Painter Margarett Sargent by Her Granddaughter, published in 1996, was reissued as a New York Times Notable Book. Her recent work, Our Revolution, was released in March 2020. Honor Moore resides and writes in New York, contributing to the graduate writing faculty of The New School. Her papers are archived at the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University.

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