Jessica Lanay Moore is a poet and short story writer originally from the Florida Keys. She is interested in writing towards the incalculable nature of human emotions, psychology, and metaphysical dilemmas.
Moore has a BA from Agnes Scott College, an MA from University of Wisconsin–Madison, an MFA in Poetry from the University of Pittsburgh, and a PhD from the Indiana University Bloomington. She is a Cave Canem and Callaloo fellow; she has workshopped with poets such as Carl Hancock Rux, Gregory Pardlo, Evie Shockley, and Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon. She also founded a women’s editorial group called The Jasper Collective while working in the advertising department of Poets & Writers Magazine. It was during her work with the Jasper Collective that she had her first publishing successes. She believes that working with a diverse body of women in editorial partnership was a large reason for achieving those publications.
Jessica’s writing can be found in Five Quarterly, Crab Fat Literary Magazine, TAYO Literary Journal, Tahoma Literary Review, Duende, and Black Candies: A Journal of Literary Horror, and others. She is currently working on a collection of poetry and a short story collection.