MICHAEL KIESOW MOORE
mail: info@michaelkiesowmoore.org
Michael Kiesow Moore is an award-winning writer of fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry, and author of the poetry collection What to Pray For(Nodin Press). Among many awards, he has received a Minnesota State Arts Board fellowship and a Loft Mentor Series Award, and received nominations for the Minnesota Book Award and the Pushcart Prize for poetry. He has published short stories, poetry, and essays in journals and magazines including The Saint Paul Almanac, Talking Stick, Rockhurst Review, Water~Stone Review, Evergreen Chronicles, Peacework, The James White Review, Mpls. St. Paul Magazine, and in the book, A Loving Testimony: Losing Loved Ones Lost to AIDS. Most recently, he has poetry anthologized inAmong the Leaves: Queer Male Poets on the Midwestern Experience.
Moore is especially grateful for the opportunity to read original work at Howard Zinn’s “Voices of a People’s History of the United States” on April 6, 2009 at O’Shaughnessy Auditorium, St. Paul.
Moore was born in Cheyenne, Wyoming and grew up in Florida and Maryland. A transplant to Minnesota, he enjoys the thriving writing and artistic community there. He received a B.A. magna cum laude from Towson University with special honors and a M.F.A. in Creative Writing at Hamline University, receiving the Outstanding Thesis award. His advisors at Hamline University were Deborah Keenan and Mary Rockcastle. During his year-long Loft Mentor Series residency he studied with Alison McGhee, Molly Peacock, G.E. Patterson, Elizabeth Alexander, Mark Winegardner, and Evelina Chao.
Moore is the founder and co-curator for the Birchbark Books Reading Series at Birchbark Books in Minneapolis, an independent bookstore.
Moore teaches creative writing Loft Literary Center and the Banfll-Locke Center for the Arts.
Moore also teaches “Writing Peace Into Your Life.” Tailored either as an ongoing class or a one-time workshop, he teaches his students how to use writing to learn about peace, and to bring peace forward into their lives. He also founded The Loft’s Peace and Social Justice Writers Group that is devoted to peace and social justice.
Moore believes strongly in the importance of community service
Website: http://www.michaelkiesowmoore.org/
Michael Kiesow Moore is an award-winning writer of fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry, and author of the poetry collection What to Pray For(Nodin Press). Among many awards, he has received a Minnesota State Arts Board fellowship and a Loft Mentor Series Award, and received nominations for the Minnesota Book Award and the Pushcart Prize for poetry. He has published short stories, poetry, and essays in journals and magazines including The Saint Paul Almanac, Talking Stick, Rockhurst Review, Water~Stone Review, Evergreen Chronicles, Peacework, The James White Review, Mpls. St. Paul Magazine, and in the book, A Loving Testimony: Losing Loved Ones Lost to AIDS. Most recently, he has poetry anthologized inAmong the Leaves: Queer Male Poets on the Midwestern Experience.
Moore is especially grateful for the opportunity to read original work at Howard Zinn’s “Voices of a People’s History of the United States” on April 6, 2009 at O’Shaughnessy Auditorium, St. Paul.
Moore was born in Cheyenne, Wyoming and grew up in Florida and Maryland. A transplant to Minnesota, he enjoys the thriving writing and artistic community there. He received a B.A. magna cum laude from Towson University with special honors and a M.F.A. in Creative Writing at Hamline University, receiving the Outstanding Thesis award. His advisors at Hamline University were Deborah Keenan and Mary Rockcastle. During his year-long Loft Mentor Series residency he studied with Alison McGhee, Molly Peacock, G.E. Patterson, Elizabeth Alexander, Mark Winegardner, and Evelina Chao.
Moore is the founder and co-curator for the Birchbark Books Reading Series at Birchbark Books in Minneapolis, an independent bookstore.
Moore teaches creative writing Loft Literary Center and the Banfll-Locke Center for the Arts.
Moore also teaches “Writing Peace Into Your Life.” Tailored either as an ongoing class or a one-time workshop, he teaches his students how to use writing to learn about peace, and to bring peace forward into their lives. He also founded The Loft’s Peace and Social Justice Writers Group that is devoted to peace and social justice.
Moore believes strongly in the importance of community service
Website: http://www.michaelkiesowmoore.org/
