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Honor Moore

Honor Moore
Honor Moore is the author of seven books, including the memoirs The Bishop's Daughter and Our Revolution, a Mother and Daughter at Midcentury and three collections of poems. For the Library of America, she edited Poems from the Women's Movement and Women's Liberation: Feminist Writings that Inspired a Revolution and Still Can! She lives in New York City, where she teaches in the MFA program at the New School.


That Kind of Woman: On Motherhood As a Choice, Not a Destiny

Honor Moore: “To be a mother was what a girl wanted then, and I did not.”
November 7, 2024  By Honor Moore
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The Secrets Mothers and Daughters Keep From One Another

Honor Moore on Finding Out Parents Are People Too
March 11, 2020  By Honor Moore
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“Premonition” A Poem by Honor Moore

From the Reprinted 1988 Collection Memoir
November 19, 2019  By Honor Moore
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What Would All Right Feel Like? Honor Moore Tells
Her Story

On the Private Moments That Lead to a Public Movement
September 9, 2019  By Honor Moore
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Honor Moore: On Finishing the Book and Conjuring My Mother

"I will finish for good, I pledged, by the anniversary of her death."
January 3, 2019  By Honor Moore
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Honor Moore: Beautiful, Beautiful

An Essay About Hair, Its Glory, Its Fate
September 22, 2015  By Honor Moore
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