Ellene Glenn Moore

Ellene Glenn Moore is a an American writer living in Zürich. She is the author of How Blood Works (Kent State University Press, 2021), selected by Richard Blanco for the Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize, and the forthcoming chapbook Passage: An Essay (Orison Books, 2025), winner of the Orison Non-Fiction Prize. Ellene earned her PhD in creative writing from Bath Spa University, where she wrote her dissertaton on hybrid genre texts, and holds other degrees in creative writing from Carnegie Mellon University and Florida International University. She has been the recipient of a John S. and James L. Knight Foundation Fellowship in Poetry, a scholarship to the New York State Summer Writers Institute, and a residency at The Studios of Key West. Ellene’s poetry, lyric non-fiction, and critical work has appeared in West Branch, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Best New Poets, Poetry Northwest, Brevity, and elsewhere.