Amanda Moore’s debut collection of poetry, Requeening, was selected for the 2020 National Poetry Series by Ocean Vuong and published by HarperCollins/Ecco in October 2021. It was a finalist for the Northern California Book Award and featured in Oprah Magazine’s annual Favorite Things Issue. Her poems have appeared in journals and anthologies including Best New Poets, ZZYZVA, Ploughshares, Kenyon Review, and Mamas and Papas: On the Sublime and Heartbreaking Art of Parenting; her essays have appeared in Poets & Writers, The Baltimore Review, and Catapult; and her translations of Costa Rican poet Ana Istarú have been published or are forthcoming in Lunch Ticket and Poet Lore.
Poetry editor at Bull City Press’s INCH and co-organizer of the Poetry World Series, Amanda is a teacher, workshop leader, and woodworker who lives by the beach in the Outer Sunset neighborhood of San Francisco.
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