Julie Moore

Poet

Upland, IN
Indiana US
Email: 
julie_moore2@taylor.edu
Website: 
www.julielmoore.com
Twitter/X: 
@JulieLMoore18

Author's Bio

Julie L. Moore’s fourth collection of poetry Full Worm Moon was published in March by Cascade Books in its Poiema Poetry Series. She is also the author of Particular Scandals, Slipping Out of Bloom, and the chapbook, Election Day. Her poetry has appeared in Image, New Ohio Review, Paterson Literary Review, Poetry Daily, Prairie Schooner, The Southern Review, and Verse Daily. Moore is an Associate Professor of English and the Writing Center Director at Taylor University. You can learn more about her work at julielmoore.com.

Publications & Prizes

Anthologies:
From the Tower: Poetry in Honor of Conrad Balliet (Main Street Rag Publishing Company, 2016)
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How Higher Education Feels: Commentaries on Poems That Illuminate Emotions in Learning and Teaching (Sense Publishers, 2016)
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The Turning Aside: The Kingdom Poets Book of Contemporary Christian Poetry (Wipf and Stock, 2016)
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Every River on Earth: Writing from Appalachian Ohio (Ohio University Press, 2015)
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Becoming: What Makes a Woman (University of Nebraska Press, 2012)
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Mamas and Papas (City Works Press, 2010)
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Seasons of Change (Outrider Press, 2010)
Books:
Full Worm Moon (Cascade Books of Wipf and Stock, 2018)
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Particular Scandals: A Book of Poems (Cascade Books of Wipf and Stock, 2013)
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Slipping Out of Bloom (WordTech Editions, 2010)
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Election Day (Finishing Line Press, 2006)
Journals:
Alaska Quarterly Review
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American Poetry Journal
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Apple Valley Review
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Ascent
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Atlanta Review
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Blue Earth Review
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Blueline
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Briar Cliff Review
,
Calyx, A Journal of Art and Literature by Women
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Canary
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Chaffin Journal
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Chautauqua
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Christian Century
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Christian Science Monitor
,
Christianity & Literature
,
Cimarron Review
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Cresset
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Dogwood
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Fairfield Review
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Flint Hills Review
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Fourth River
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Free Lunch
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Image Journal
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MacGuffin
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Mars Hill Review
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National Poetry Review
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Nimrod
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Paterson Literary Review
,
Poetry Daily
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Prairie Schooner
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Redheaded Stepchild
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Relief: A Journal of Art & Faith
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River Oak Review
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Ruminate
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Schuylkill Valley Journal
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Sou'wester
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Southern Review
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Sow's Ear Poetry Review
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Valparaiso Poetry Review
,
Verse Daily
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Willow Review
,
Windhover
Prizes won: 

Winner, Writecorner Press, Editor's Choice Award; Rosine Offen Memorial Award, Free Lunch; Winner, Janet B. McCabe Poetry Prize, RUMINATE magazine; Finalist, Dogwood Poetry Contest, 2014; International Merit Award, 2014, Atlanta Review’s International Poetry Competition; Finalist, 2013, Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry, Nimrod International Journal of Prose and Poetry; International Merit Award, Atlanta Review, 2012, International Poetry Competition; Finalist, River Styx International Poetry Contest, 2011; Second Honorable Mention, National Poet Hunt Contest, The MacGuffin, 2006.

Personal Favorites

Favorite authors: 
Lucille Clifton, Emily Dickinson, Gerard Manley Hopkins, John Donne, Robert Frost, Jane Kenyon, Maxine Kumin, Marilyn Nelson, Natasha Trethewey, Tracy K. Smith, Rita Dove, and James Wright.
What I'm reading now: 
Wade in the Water by Tracy K. Smith, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin by Terrance Hayes, The Book of Kells by Barbara Crooker, Heavy by Kiese Layman, How The Body of Christ Talks by C. Christopher Smith, The Christian Imagination: Theology and the Origins of Race by Willie James Jennings

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Prefers to work with: 
Any
Fluent in: 
English
Born in: 
Moorestown, NJ
New Jersey
Raised in: 
Moorestown, NJ
New Jersey
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Last update: May 03, 2019