Long Bright River (Moore) - Author Bio

Author Bio
• Birth—May 25, 1983
• Raised—Framingham, Massachusetts, USA
• Education—B.A., Barnard College; M.F.A., Hunter College
• Awards—Rome Prize in Literature
• Currently—lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylania


Liz Moore is an American author with several novels under her name. Raised in Massachusetts, she attended Barnard College for her BA and Hunter College for an M.F.A. in Creative Writing. Both colleges are in New York City.

Her decision to remain in New York, working as a musician, inspired her first novel, The Words of Every Song (2007). Following its publication, Moore shifted her focus to writing, subsequently publishing the novels Heft (2012) and The Unseen World (2016).

Moore received the 2014 Rome Prize in Literature from the American Academy in Rome, and Heft was longlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. 

Moore now lives in Philadelphia, the city on which she based her third novel, Long Bright River, a police procedural and family drama centered on addiction. She lives there with her husband and daughter. (Adapted from Wikipedia. Retrieved 2/24/2020.)