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Dinty W. Moore [1]

Listed as:

Fiction Writer, Creative Nonfiction Writer

Email:

panic.desire@gmail.com

Bio:

Dinty W. Moore worked as a journalist, a documentary filmmaker, a zookeeper, a modern dancer, and a Greenwich Village waiter before realizing he wanted to be a writer. He is author of the memoir Between Panic & Desire, winner of the Grub Street Nonfiction Book Prize, the writing guide Crafting the Personal Essay, and is editor of The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing Flash Nonfiction, among many other books. Moore has published essays and stories in Harpers, The New York Times Sunday Magazine, The Philadelphia Inquirer Magazine, Creative Nonfiction, The Georgia Review and elsewhere. Moore founded Brevity, an online journal of flash nonfiction, twenty years ago and continues to edit the journal, publishing award-winning and emerging writers and reaching a wide international audience of readers.

Gives readings:

Yes

Travels for readings:

Yes

In which languages are you fluent?:

English

Website:

https://www.dintywmoore.com [2]

Prizes won:

Stanley Lindberg Award for Literary Editing, Rainier Writing Workshop/Pacific Lutheran University. Presented annually to an editor who encourages

excellence in writing and performs outstanding editorial production; Nancy Dasher Award, Ohio College English Association, Best Book, Creative Writing Category, Between Panic and Desire; Grub Street Literary Center (Boston) National Book Prize for Nonfiction, Between Panic and Desire; Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fiction Fellowship; National Endowment for the Arts, Literature Fellowship for Fiction Writing

Identifies as:

Buddhist

Irish American

Prefers to work with:

Any