Catherine Moore is a fiction writer and poet. She is the author of several collections including the latest from Unsolicited Press, Borrowings of the Shan Van Vocht; lyrical pieces in the voices of bog bodies. Her writing has appeared in the Tahoma Literary Review, Southampton Review, Cider Press Review, Still: the Journal, Caesura, Mid-American Review and in various anthologies. A Walker Percy and Hambidge fellow, she is several times nominated for the Pushcart Prize and has been awarded The Yemassee Journal’s Fiction Prize and the Southeast Review’s Gearhart Poetry Prize. Her work appears in The Best Small Fictions of 2015 anthology.
Catherine helped shepherd the creation of a literary & arts journal, Tampa Review Online and served as the Poetry Editor. She was a Guest Editor at Toe Good Poetry, and now serves as Managing Editor at Doubleback Books. She is co-Editor along with Stacey Balkun of Fiolet & Wing: An Anthology of Domestic Fabulist Women Poetry (Liminal Books, an imprint of Between the Lines Press).
Catherine earned a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from the University of Tampa. She lives in the Nashville area where she enjoys a thriving arts scene and was awarded a BonnarooWorks/MetroArts grant. She currently teaches at a community college.
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Lyricist and fiction writer Catherine Moore is the author of several collections including her latest from Unsolicited Press, Borrowings of the Shan Van Vocht. Winner of the Yemassee Journal’s Fiction Prize as well as The Southeast Review’s Poetry Prize, her work appears in Tahoma Literary Review, Southampton Review, Mid-American Review, Broad River Review and in various anthologies, including the juried Best Small Fictions. Catherine holds a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing and she teaches at a community college. She is tweetable @CatPoetic.
Selected Awards & Notables:
Borrowings of the Shan Van Vocht was a finalist in the Silver Falchion – Best Supernatural Award, sponsored by the Killer Nashville Conference 2021.
The short story “Burnt Festival Blues” was recently awarded The Yemassee 2019 Fiction Prize. Its publication is forthcoming in Yemassee: the literary journal of the University of South Carolina, 2020. Print.
“Until it Thunders” was a finalist in the Rash Award for Fiction at Gardner-Webb University, 2017, and published in the Broad River Review–50th Anniversary Issue, Volume 50, 2018. Print. https://broadriverreview.org/2017-contest/
“Rain-dance and the Moon-eyed Mae” was shortlisted for the Faulkner–Wisdom Story Competition, 2017, and published in American Writers Review–Summer 2018, San Fedele Press. Print. https://faulknersociety.org/faulkner-wisdom-competition-winners-finalists/
“Not About Liz” published in The Best Small Fictions 2015, anthology, Queens Ferry Press, 2015. Guest Editor: Robert Olen Butler. Series Editor: Tara L. Masih. Braddock Avenue Books. Reissued November 2017. ISBN: 978-09989667-9-3. Print. https://shop.braddockavenuebooks.com/shop/braddock/00036.html
The 2014 Gearhart Poetry Prize winner, “Love Poem, revisited” was published in The Southeast Review, Vol. 33.1, 2015.