Mary B. Moore is the author of the full-length poetry collections Flicker (Dogfish Head Award, Broadkill River Press, 2016) and The Book of Snow (Cleveland State University Press, 1997), as well as the chapbooks Amanda and the Man Soul (Emrys Award, 2017) and Eating the Light (Sable Books Prize, 2016). She is also the author of the scholarly volume Desiring Voices: Women Sonneteers and Petrarchism (Southern Illinois University Press, 2000). Moore's poems have appeared in Poetry, Prairie Schooner, 32 Poems, The Georgia Review, The Gettysburg Review, Catamaran, Nelle, Nimrod, and Birmingham Poetry Review, among other places. A native Californian with a Ph.D. in Renaissance poetry and prose (University of California, Davis), she taught poetry, Shakespeare, and writing at Marshall University. She is married to the philosopher John Vielkind.