Liz Moore
Liz Moore is the author of five novels, including Long Bright River, a New York Times bestseller and one of Barack Obama’s favorite books of 2020, and The God of the Woods, which debuted as a #1 indie bestseller and has gone on to become an international bestseller.
She earned her MFA in Fiction from Hunter College and later won the 2014 Rome Prize in Literature. Moore has also received the Medici Book Club Prize and Philadelphia’s Athenaeum Literary Award. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Tin House, and Narrative Magazine.
Moore’s Long Bright River is being adapted into a Peacock series starring Amanda Seyfried, with Moore as co-creator and executive producer. Both The Unseen World and The God of the Woods have been optioned by Sony Pictures Television.
She is the Director of the MFA program in Creative Writing at Temple University and lives in Philadelphia with her family.
