Kim Moore

Kim Moore’s collection All the Men I Never Married (Seren, 2021) won the 2022 Forward Prize for Best Collection. Her first collection The Art of Falling (Seren, 2015) won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. She is the author of the non-fiction titles What the Trumpet Taught Me (Smith/Doorstop, 2022) and Are You Judging Me Yet? Poetry and Everyday Sexism (Seren, 2023). She is a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University and Deputy Programme Leader of the MA and MFA in Creative Writing. Author photo © Rebecca Higson

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