Kim Moore

Kim Moore was born in Leicester, England. Her first chapbook If We Could Speak Like Wolves was a winner in the 2011 Poetry Business Pamphlet Competition, and went on to be shortlisted for the Michael Marks Award and the Lakeland Book of the Year. She is the author of the full-length poetry collections All The Men I Never Married (Seren, 2021), winner of the Forward Prize for Best Collection, and The Art of Falling (Seren, 2015), winner of the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and shortlisted for the 2022 Forward Prize for Best Collection. She also published her first nonfiction book, What The Trumpet Taught Me (Smith/Doorstop, 2022). Moore’s work has been translated into many languages as part of the Versopolis project, and she was a judge for the 2018 National Poetry Competition and the 2020 Forward Prizes. -Poetry Foundation