After receiving her PhD in English, Jean P. Moore began her professional career teaching American literature and composition. Before turning her attention to writing fulltime, she was an executive director in workforce development at Verizon in New York. Her work has appeared in newspapers, magazines, and literary journals. Her most recent novel “Crossing from Shore to Shore” was published by Running Wild Press in 2025. Her first novel “Water on the Moon” won the 2015 Independent Publisher Book Award (IPPY) for contemporary fiction. Her poetry chapbook “Time’s Tyranny” was nominated for the Massachusetts Book Award, 2018. “Tilda’s Promise,” a novel, was an NIEA finalist and won the NYC Big Book Award in contemporary fiction, 2019. Jean resides in Tyringham, Massachusetts, with husband Steve and Lexi, their Klein poodle.
