Liz Moore is an accomplished author known for her novels The Words of Every Song (Broadway Books, 2007), Heft (W.W. Norton, 2012), The Unseen World (W.W. Norton, 2016), and the New York Times-bestselling Long Bright River (Riverhead, 2019). Her debut novel draws on her experiences as a musician and was praised for its elegance and wisdom.

After obtaining her MFA in Fiction from Hunter College, Moore moved to Philadelphia thanks to the University of Pennsylvania's ArtsEdge residency. Her works have been lauded for their emotional depth and originality, earning her the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award longlist and the Medici Book Club Prize, among other accolades.

Moore's tenure at the American Academy in Rome as a 2014 Rome Prize in Literature winner helped her complete her third novel. Her works have been featured in prominent lists, including those by The New Yorker, BBC, and Barack Obama's favorite books of 2020. Currently, she resides in Philadelphia with her family and contributes to the literary community as a faculty member of the MFA program in Creative Writing at Temple University.