12 Facts About Honor Moore

Honor Moore was born on October 28,1945 and is an American writer of poetry, creative nonfiction and plays.

Honor Moore currently teaches at The New School in the MFA program for creative nonfiction, where she is a part-time associate teaching professor.

Honor Moore was born in 1945 to Jenny Moore and of Bishop Paul Moore.

Honor Moore attended the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale University between 1967 and 1979.

Honor Moore has been poet-in-residence at Wesleyan University and the University of Richmond, visiting professor at the Columbia School of the Arts, and was the Visiting Distinguished Writer in the Nonfiction Writing Program at the University of Iowa.

Honor Moore is the author of three collections of poems: Red Shoes, Darling, and Memoir; two works of nonfiction, The White Blackbird and The Bishop's Daughter; and the play Mourning Pictures, which was produced on Broadway and published in The New Women's Theatre: Ten Plays by Contemporary American Women, which she edited.

Honor Moore has received awards in poetry and playwriting from the National Endowment for the Arts, The New York State Council for the Arts and the Connecticut Commission for the Arts and in 2004 was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship.

In 2012, Honor Moore served as the prestigious Bedell Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Iowa's Nonfiction Writing Program.

Honor Moore is the editor of Amy Lowell: Selected Poems for the Library of America and co-editor of The Stray Dog Cabaret, A Book of Russian Poems, translated by Paul Schmidt.

Honor Moore teaches in the graduate writing programs at The New School and Columbia University School of the Arts.

Honor Moore is on the editorial board of the literary magazine The Common, based at Amherst College, and published work in the debut issue.

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