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 Book and 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), which won the 2022 Forward Prize for Best Collection, and The Art of Falling (Seren, 2015), which won the 2016 Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. She published a nonfiction book, What the Trumpet Taught Me (Smith/Doorstop, 2022), and has written a hybrid book of lyric essays titled Are You Judging Met Yet? Poetry and Everyday Sexism (Seren, 2023).

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.

Moore earned a PhD at Manchester Metropolitan University, where her thesis was on “poetry and everyday sexism,” and she was awarded a Vice-Chancellor’s Bursary to carry out her research. She won a 2011 Eric Gregory Award and the Geoffrey Dearmer Prize in 2010 and was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Poem in 2015. She won the 2020 Ledbury Poetry Competition and placed third in the 2021 Mslexia Poetry Competition.

Moore lives in Cumbria, England, and is a lecturer in creative writing at Manchester Metropolitan University. She also serves as the codirector of Kendal Poetry Festival, hosts a reading series for Wordsworth Grasmere, and runs regular writing workshops for young people and adults.