Mary B (Mary Barbara) Moore

Mary B. Moore's three poetry books and several chapbooks include Orison Books' Dear If  due out April, 2022; Flicker, which won the 2016 Dogfish Head Book Award, judges Carol Frost, Baron Wormser, and Jan Beatty; and The Book Of Snow, which  Cleveland State University published in 1998. Her chapbooks are Amanda and the Man Soul, 2017 Emrys prize, judge, Dorianne Laux; and Eating the Light, 2016 Sable Books award, judge Allison Joseph. She's also won awards or placed in contests at NELLE, Nimrod, Terrain, and Asheville Poetry Reveiw. Poems appeared lately in Poetry, Prairie Schooner, Georgia Review, Gettysburg Review, Nimrod, NELLE, Nasty Woman Poets Anthology, Fire and Rain: Eco-Poetry of California, Birmingham Poetry Review, The Asheville Review, Catamaran, and elsewhere. A retired professor at Marshall University, she taught and published articles and one critical book on women's poetry, Shakespeare and Renaissance literature, and lives with her husband, the philosopher, John Vielkind.  Her daughter lives in Northern California, Moore's long-time home and birthplace.