Julie L. Moore

Julie L. Moore is the author of four poetry collections, including, most recently, Full Worm Moon, which won one of five 2018 Woodrow Hall Top Shelf Awards and received honorable mention for the Conference on Christianity and Literature's 2018 Book of the Year Award. She is also the author of Particular Scandals (Cascade Books, 2013), Slipping Out of Bloom (WordTech Editions, 2010), and the chapbook, Election Day (Finishing Line Press, 2006). A Best of the Net and five-time Pushcart Prize nominee, Moore has had poetry appear widely in such notable publications as Alaska Quarterly Review, The Christian Century, Image Journal, New Ohio Review, Nimrod International Journal, Paterson Literary Review, Poetry Daily, Prairie Schooner, The Southern Review, Valparaiso Poetry Review, and Verse Daily. Likewise, her poems have been included in many anthologies, including Becoming: What Makes a Woman, published by University of Nebraska Gender Programs; Every River On Earth: Writing from Appalachian Ohio, published by Ohio University Press; How Higher Education Feels: Commentaries on Poems That Illuminate Emotions in Learning and Teaching, edited by Kathleen M. Quinlan (Oxford Learning Institute, University of Oxford, UK); and Adam, Eve, and the Riders of the Apocalypse: 39 Contemporary Poets on the Characters of the Bible and The Turning Aside: The Kingdom Poets Book of Contemporary Christian Poetry, both edited by poet D.S. Martin and published by Wipf & Stock Publishers. Moore is an Associate Professor of English and the Writing Center Director at Taylor University, where she is the poetry editor for Relief: A Journal of Art and Faith. You can learn more about her work at julielmoore.com.