Harry Moore grew up in East Central Alabama after World War II. With degrees in English from Auburn University, Rice University, and Middle Tennessee State University, he taught freshman comp and sophomore literature in community college for four decades before retiring in 2009. His poems have appeared in South Carolina Review, Sow's Ear Poetry Review, POEM, Penwood Review, Teaching English in the Two-Year College, English Journal, Alabama Literary Review, Avocet, The Cape Rock, Anglican Theological Review, and other journals. He is the author of two chapbooks: What He Would Call Them (Finishing Line Press, 2013) and Time's Fool: Love Poems (Mule on a Ferris Wheel Press, 2014). In 2014, he received the Maureen Egen Writers Exchange Award from Poets & Writers, with a week in New York and four weeks at Jentel Artist Residency in Northeast Wyoming. Readings include the Calhoun Writers' Conference in 2013, McNally Jackson Books in Soho in 2014, the Alabama Book Festival in 2015, and the Louisville Conference on American Literature in 2016. An assistant editor of POEM magazine, he lives with his wife, Cassandra, in Decatur, Alabama.
