About Lorrie Moore

Lorrie Moore was born January 13, 1957 in Glens Falls, New York. At the age of nineteen, Moore won a short story contest in Seventeen Magazine, where her story “Raspberries” was published. She was the editor of Saint Lawrence University’s literary magazine, and she spent some time tutoring on an Indian Reservation while she earned her undergraduate degree. She graduated summa cum laude with a degree in English in 1978. She then worked as a paralegal for two years before she earned her Masters in Fine Arts from Cornell University. Since then, Moore has written numerous short stories, as well as novels such as A Gate At The Stairs. She recently left her post as Delmore Schwartz Humanities Professor and creative writing instructor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison to be a professor of English at Vanderbilt University. Other than being a New York Time Best Seller for A Gate At The Stairs, Moore has earned numerous awards, including the National Endowment for the Arts Award in 1989, the Rockefeller Foundation fellowship in 1989, the Guggenheim fellowship in 1992, and the O. Henry Award in 1998.