Jeffrey Moore is a Canadian writer, translator, and educator currently living in Val-Morin in the Quebec Laurentians. Born in Montreal, Moore was educated at the University of Toronto, the Sorbonne (Paris), and the University of Ottawa.
He is a freelance translator and Lecturer in Translation at the Université de Montréal. Moore works for museums, theatres, dance companies, and film festivals around the world and has an extensive list of published translations to his credit, including Magritte, Century of Splendour, and Lost Paradise-Symbolist Europe.
Prisoner in a Red-Rose Chain, his first novel written over several years in Canada, Scotland, England, Hungary, and Bali, was a finalist for the QSPELL Literary Awards and winner of both the regional and international Commonwealth Writers Prize 2000. The Memory Artists (2004) won the Canadian Authors Association Award for Best Novel.