Harry Moore

After growing up in rural Alabama, Harry V. Moore went on to study English at Auburn University, Rice University, and Middle Tennessee State University. He spent roughly four decades teaching composition and literature at the community-college level, a background that helps explain the clarity and grounded feeling of his writing.

His poems have appeared in a wide range of literary journals, and in 2014 he received the Maureen Egen Writers Exchange Award from Poets & Writers. Since retiring from teaching in 2009, he has published multiple poetry collections and chapbooks, including Bearing the Farm Away, Broken and Blended: Love's Alchemy, and We the People: Confessions of a Caucasian Southerner.

Moore lives in Decatur, Alabama, with his wife, Cassandra. His work often returns to the landscapes, relationships, and social questions that have shaped his life, giving his poetry a reflective and deeply personal tone.