A Reading with Anna B. Moore & Jennifer MacBain Stephens

Anna B. Moore has published lots of creative nonfiction and a little fiction in places such as American Scholar, Shenandoah, Pithead Chapel, and Smokelong Quarterly. Her first novel, Don't Pity the Desperate, will be out in September. In 2022, her essay in Pembroke Magazine, “Deathbed,” about her father's last month of life, was an honorable mention in Best American Essays 2022. That same year, three of her essays were nominated for Sundress Press Best of the Net Awards. "That Our Stars Had Become Unmanageable," an essay about her father's alcoholism and the concept of fate; "Jenny Dies by Jet Ski,” about soap operas that shaped Anna's perspective as a child; and "Teaching Duncan, 2009," about a student's addiction and her own numerous failures. You can read these, and more of her work, at https://www.annabmoore.com/.

She lives with her family, two cats, and two dogs in Northern California, where she teaches…