Lenard D. Moore, a Cave Canem Graduate Fellow and guest
editor of the special African American feature in
Pembroke Magazine, Number 39, is the author of
FOREVER HOME (St. Andrews College Press, 1992). His
poems, essays, and reviews have appeared in Agni,
Colorado Review, North Dakota Quarterly, Midwest
Quarterly Review, Callaloo, Natural Bridge, Crab Orchard
Review, African American Review, Obsidian III, and
elsewhere. He is the recipient of the Sam Ragan Fine
Arts Award (2006), the Margaret Walker Creative Writing
Award (CLA, 1997) and the Haiku Museum of Tokyo Award
(2003, 1994, and 1983). He has twice been nominated for
The Pushcart Prize. He has been a Counselor-Writer (for
four consecutive years: 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2005) at
the National Book Foundation (sponsor of the National
Book Awards) Summer Writing Camp. He is the founder and
executive director of the Carolina African American
Writers' Collective. He is the executive chairman of the
North Carolina Haiku Society. He has taught English,
studies in modern poetry, and poetry writing at North
Carolina State University. He is Assistant Professor of
English at Mount Olive College, where he directs the MOC
Literary Festival. He also serves as Faculty Advisor of
The Trojan Voices, the MOC literary journal.
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