Marshall Moore

Marshall Moore (born June 29, 1970), in Havelock, North Carolina, is an American author and academic living in Cornwall, England. He attended the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics (NCSSM) and went on to obtain a BA in psychology from East Carolina University, an MA in applied linguistics from the University of New England, and a PhD in creative writing from Aberystwyth University in Wales. He has also studied at Gallaudet University. He has lived in New Bern, Winston-Salem, Greensboro, Washington, D.C., Maryland, Oakland, Portland, Seattle, the suburbs of Seoul, and Hong Kong. Fluent in American Sign Language, he worked for many years as an interpreter before moving abroad.

Novels

 * The Concrete Sky, Binghamton, NY: Haworth Press, 2003
 * An Ideal for Living, Maple Shade, NJ: Lethe Press, 2010
 * Bitter Orange, Hong Kong: Signal 8 Press, 2013
 * Inhospitable, Manchester: Camphor Press, 2018

Nonfiction

 * I Wouldn't Normally Do This Kind of Thing: A Memoir, New Orleans: Rebel Satori Press, 2022
 * Blood and Black T-Shirts: Dispatches from Hong Kong's Descent into Hell 2019-2020, Manchester: Plum Rain Press, 2024
 * Sunset House: Essays, New Orleans: Rebel Satori Press, 2024

Short story collections

 * Black Shapes in a Darkened Room, San Francisco: Suspect Thoughts Press, 2004
 * The Infernal Republic, Hong Kong: Signal 8 Press, 2012
 * A Garden Fed by Lightning, Hong Kong: Signal 8 Press, 2016
 * Love Is a Poisonous Color, New Orleans: Rebel Satori Press, 2023

In translation

 * Sagome nere, Turin: 96, Rue de-la-Fontaine Edizioni, 2017 (Translator: Rossella Cirigliano)

Edited anthologies (short fiction)

 * The Queen of Statue Square: New Short Fiction from Hong Kong (Co-editor: Xu Xi), Nottingham: Critical, Cultural & Communications Press, 2014

Edited academic nonfiction

 * The Place and the Writer: International Intersections of Teacher Lore and Creative Writing Pedagogy (Co-editor: Sam Meekings) London: Bloomsbury - Continuum, 2021
 * Creative Writing Scholars on the Publishing Trade: Practice, Praxis, Print (Co-editor: Sam Meekings) London: Routledge, 2022
 * The Scholarship of Creative Writing Practice: Beyond Craft, Pedagogy, and the Academy (Co-editor: Sam Meekings) London: Bloomsbury - Continuum, 2024
 * Creative Writing Workshopping in the 21st Century: New Strategies for a Modern Era (Co-editors: Adrian Markle and Sam Meekings) London: Bloomsbury - Continuum, 2025

Chapbooks

 * Il look del diavolo, Hong Kong: Signal 8 Press, 2011
 * Never Turn Away, Hong Kong: Signal 8 Press, 2013

In addition to these books, Moore has published dozens of short stories, book reviews, and essays.

His work has been translated into Greek, Polish, and Italian.