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Alison Moore is a former assistant professor of English/Creative Writing in the MFA Creative Writing Program at the University of Arizona and a current Humanities Scholar in Texas. She received her MFA from the Warren Wilson Program for Writers in 1990. Currently, she makes her home in Texas and divides her time between the Hill Country outside Austin and Terlingua in the Big Bend, and is completing a novel on the Orphan Trains. She has developed public outreach programs for the Orphan Train Heritage Society of America, Inc., and for ArtsReach, a Native American literacy project in southern Arizona. She is the author of three books, a collection of short stories entitled Small Spaces between Emergencies (Mercury House, 1992) one of the Notable Books of 1993 chosen by the American Library Association, a novel, Synonym for Love (Mercury House, 1995) and her newest, The Middle of Elsewhere. She has received several national awards as well as state arts council awards and was the winner of the Katherine Ann Porter Prize for Fiction in 2004. She received a 2010 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship to complete a novel about the Orphan Trains.
Alison and her husband, musician Phil Lancaster, have been touring Arkansas, Texas, and Arizona performing a multimedia program about the Orphan Trains with funding from state Humanities Councils.
Winner: Katherine Ann Porter Prize for Fiction 2004
Previous books:
ALA Notable Book (Small Spaces between Emergencies 1993)
Publishers Weekly Starred Review (Synonym for Love 1995)
Quality Paperback Club New Voices (Synonym for Love 1995)
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