Bio

D.O. Moore is a published poet, translator, and fiction writer. She's currently querying her recently completed novel, Seeding the Race, a work of speculative fiction.

Before landing in the Washington, D.C., metro area, Moore adventured first to Venezuela for a year, then France for another, and finally to Louisiana, where she worked with Ernest Gaines and earned her doctorate in English and Creative Writing from the University of Louisiana.

Moore’s published works of fiction, poetry, and translations of Spanish-language poetry and fiction can be found in a variety of literary journals. Most notably, her poetry has appeared in the American Poetry Journal, Rhino, Barrow Street, and Beloit Poetry Journal. She translated esteemed author Juan Rulfo’s Three Pieces from the Spanish, making it available in English for the first time. Earlier short fiction pieces include Opened Again, which was published in The Southwestern Review, Spring 1993 issue and The Battery Acid Babe, published on Circuit Traces, 1996.

Moore’s dystopian science fiction novel Seeding the Race and her book-length poetry collection Body Mass each address issues of the physical self, celebrating and lamenting the requirement to live within a body. Her work explores the tension of our human need for connection against the threat of pain that connecting holds.

When Moore’s not writing, she can be found making jewelry, exploring how wool fibers, like words, can be entangled and mixed to create something beautiful. Her wool-bead jewelry is available at Wooly Bear Beads and occasionally at craft fairs. You can view her jewelry on Instagram @WoolyBearBeads.

You can also find her on Twitter @DOMoore9.