American · b. 1983
Liz Moore writes novels about people on the margins of American life. Born in 1983, she grew up in a family of classical musicians and studied writing at Barnard College. Her debut, The Words of Every Song (2007), followed characters in the music industry. Heft (2012) and The Unseen World (2016) deepened her reputation for empathetic portraits of isolated people. Then Long Bright River (2020) broke through—a literary thriller about two sisters in Philadelphia's opioid crisis, praised for its compassion and procedural precision. The God of the Woods (2024) expanded her canvas: a missing girl at an Adirondack summer camp in 1975, class tensions between staff and guests, and a family's buried secrets. She teaches at Temple University and lives in Philadelphia.