Lenard Moore

Lenard D. Moore is a poet, fiction writer, essayist, and book reviewer, and he teaches African American Literature and Advanced Poetry Writing at the University of Mount Olive, where he directs the literary festival. His literary works have appeared in African American Review, Agni, Callaloo, Colorado Review, North American Review, North Dakota Quarterly, Obsidian, Prairie Schooner, and Valley Voices, and he is the author of A Temple Looming, among other books. He is the founder and executive director of the Carolina African American Writers’ Collective and co-founder of the Washington Street Writers Group. He is recipient of several awards, including the North Carolina Award for Literature (2014), Haiku Museum of Tokyo Award (2003, 1994, and 1983), and Margaret Walker Creative Writing Award (1997).