Bio

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Carrie R. Moore is the author of Make Your Way Home, a short story collection exploring Black love and longing in the American South. Her writing has appeared in The Best American Short Stories, Oprah Daily, The Sewanee ReviewOne Story, American Short Fiction, and other publications. She earned her MFA in Fiction at The Michener Center for Writers, where she won the Keene Prize for Literature and served as the Fiction Editor of Bat City Review. In 2023, she was the inaugural Writer-In-Residence at the Steinbeck Writers’ Retreat in Sag Harbor, NY.