Honor Moore

Honor Moore is a prizewinning poet and memoirist living and writing in New York City. A Termination (2024) an account of her pre-Roe abortion and how that act of resistance shaped and allowed who she became – was published by A Public Space and was a New York Times Editor’s Choice and appeared on best of the year lists at Publisher’s Weekly and the Boston Globe; the audiobook will appear next month. Our Revolution, a Mother and Daughter at Midcentury (2020) was published two days before the Covid 19 lockdown and its book tour was one of the first conducted over Zoom. The Bishop’s Daughter (2008), excerpted in the New Yorker, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and a N.Y. Times Editor’s Choice, and The White Blackbird, a Life of the Painter Margarett Sargent by her Granddaughter (1996), was a New York Times Notable Book. Moore’s collections of poems are At Our Age (2025), Red Shoes (2005), Darling (2001)  and Memoir (1988) reissued as a “Contemporary Classic” by Carnegie Mellon Press (2018).  She has edited several collections for the Library of American, most recently, with Alix Kates Shulman, Women’s Liberation! Feminist Writings that Inspired a Revolution and Still Can! (2021) and is at work co-editing the journals of Arthur Miller. Her writing has appeared in many journals including the New Yorker, the Paris Review and Poetry.  She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and associate professor of creative nonfiction in the MFA program at the New School.