Author of "The Bishop's Daughter," Honor Moore to Speak
Hollins University 7916 Williamson Road , Roanoke, Virginia 24019
Honor Moore's 2008 memoir, "The Bishop's Daughter," was named an Editor's Choice by "The New York Times," a "Favorite Book of 2008" by "The Los Angeles Times," and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. She is the author of three collections of poems: "Red Shoes," "Darling," and "Memoir;" her play, "Mourning Pictures," was produced on Broadway and published in The New Women's Theatre: "Ten Plays by Contemporary American Women," which she edited. Moore has received awards in poetry and playwriting from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council for the Arts, and the Connecticut Commission for the Arts, and in 2004 was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in nonfiction. In addition, she is the editor of "Amy Lowell: Selected Poems for the Library of America" and coeditor of "The Stray Dog Cabaret, A Book of Russian Poems." She is on the faculty of the graduate writing program at The New School. Funding for this event is provided by the Dee Hull Everist Visiting Speaker Series.