Spark Artist

Susan Leslie Moore’s poetry has appeared in Best American Poetry, Iowa Review, The New York Times Magazine, New York Quarterly, North American Review, Poetry Northwest, Willow Springs, and elsewhere. She was born in California, grew up in Corvallis, attended the University of Oregon in Eugene, and has spent most of her life in Oregon. She has a Masters in Writing from Portland State University and is the director of programs for writers at Literary Arts.

She is the author of two chapbooks from Dancing Girl Press, She Preferred to Read the Knives and How to Live Forever. Susan edited the online magazine Caffeine Destiny for 13 years and is one of the editors of the anthology Alive At The Center: Contemporary Poems from the Pacific Northwest, published by Ooligan Press.  She is the author of That Place Where You Opened Your Hands, winner of the Juniper Prize from University of Massachusetts Press.

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