Fiona Moore lives in Greenwich, London. In 2004 she left her career in the Foreign Office to write and work part-time for a sustainable development NGO. She reviews poetry, was an assistant editor at The Rialto and is currently on the editorial board of Magma. The first of her two HappenStance pamphlets, The Only Reason for Time, was a Guardian poetry book of the year and the second, Night Letter, was shortlisted for the Michael Marks Award for Poetry Pamphlets. Her first collection, The Distal Point (HappenStance, 2018), was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize and the Seamus Heaney first collection prize. Her second, Okapi (Blue Diode, 2024) comes out of nearly two years living in the Outer Hebrides. She campaigns on climate and environmental issues. Author photo © Naomi Woddis
