Devon Jean Moore (born November 27, 1982) is an American poet and author.

Biography

Moore a native of Buffalo, NY, USA. She currently lives in Syracuse, NY, USA where she teaches writing at

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and SUNY Oswego. A former Syracuse University Fellow, she has an MFA in creative writing from Syracuse University. Her poems have appeared in or are forthcoming from ''Gulf Coast'', and they have also appeared in ''Foothill,'' Cider Press Review,

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, ''Ovenbird,''

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, Meridian,

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'',

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, and ''Juked''. “In Sun,”

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(forthcoming in Summer 2015) Her first poetry book, ''Apology of a Girl Who Is Told She Is Going to Hell'', which was a semi-finalist for the 2013 Crab Orchard First Book Award and the

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Brittingham and

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poetry series, was released from

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in May 2015.

Awards

Poetry awards

* Crab Orchard Review First Book Award, Semi-Finalist, 2013 * The University of Wisconsin Press Brittingham and Felix Pollak Prizes, Semi-Finalist, 2013 and 2012 * Juniper Summer Writing Institute Scholarship, 2012

Creative nonfiction honors and awards

Constance Saltonstall Foundation of The Arts
Juried Fellow, June 2015 * Joyce Carol Oates’ Award in Nonfiction Winner, May 2011 * Syracuse University's AWP Intro Journals Project Creative Nonfiction Nominee, 2012

Scholarly and teaching awards

* Syracuse University Fellowship (a full Fellowship through the Creative Writing Program), 2009–2010, 2011-2012 * NYC Teaching Fellows’ Classroom Excellence Award Nominee, 2008

Collections

* Before acceptance by

, this book was a semi-finalist for the 2013 Crab Orchard First Book Award and the

Brittingham and

poetry series. In this collection of poems, Moore weaves the intersecting themes of her father's death, her family's history of battling addictions, living with the grief and loss that accompanied both of those things, recognizing the wonder in the everyday, and the search to find one's place (not only for the poetic “I” of her poems, but also for the characters who populate her poetry) in a world that has been characterized from childhood as a place of indefatigable longing. The poet,

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, has called her book “a moving, elemental debut hatis part autobiography of toughness and part meditation on desire.” And the poet,

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finalist Bruce Smith, writes “Devon Moore makes spaces that are theaters for the soul ..What I like best about Moore’s work is the great reciprocity, the generosity that allows the ‘closeness to what hurts us’ be conducted into our being.”

Publications

* Gulf Coast, November 2012, “Red.” *

, Vol. 12 No. 1, Fall 2012, “Why I Return to West Avenue, Driving Down the Street Slow” and “Skeleton Pier.” * Stone Canoe: A Journal of Arts, Literature, and Social Commentary, Issue 6, 2012, “Patricide.”“A Skeptic Looks Up the Brooklyn Bridge, Shivers,”

References

External links

DevonJMoore.com
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