In this video, Carrie R. Moore, winner of the University of Texas at Austin’s 2021 Keene Prize for Literature, talks about how a Solange song inspired her short story “The Rest of the Morning.” Moore, author of Make Your Way Home (Tin House Books, 2025), is featured in “First Fiction 2025” in the July/August issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
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