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Honor Moore’s memoir Our Revolution, a Mother and Daughter at Midcentury was published in 2020, two days before lockdown. The Bishop’s Daughter was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, a LA Times Favorite Book of the Year and a New York Times editor’s choice.  Her most recent collection of poems is Red Shoes.  Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The American Scholar, Salmagundi, The New Republic, Freeman’s, Poetry, Tin House and many other journals and anthologies.  For the Library of America, she edited, with Alix Kates Shulman, Women's Liberation: Feminist Writings that Inspired a Revolution and Still Can (2021); prior titles for them are Amy Lowell: Selected Poems and Poems from the Women’s Movement, featured in the documentary about American feminism, “She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry.” She has been poet in residence at Wesleyan and the University of Richmond, visiting professor at the Columbia School of the Arts and three times the Visiting Distinguished Writer in the Nonfiction Writing Program at the University of Iowa.  When she was in her twenties, Mourning Pictures, her play in poetry about her mother’s dying, was produced on Broadway and won her a fellowship from the New York State Council on the Arts. The White Blackbird, A Life of the Painter Margarett Sargent by Her Granddaughter, (1996; reissued 2009) was a New York Times Notable Book.  She has also received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and National Endowment for the Arts. She lives and writes in New York where she is on the graduate writing faculty of the New School. 

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