Liz Moore is a writer of novels. Her first novel, The Words of Every Song (Broadway Books, 2007), centers on a fictional record company in New York City. It draws partly on Liz's own unhappy experiences as a musician. It was selected for Borders' Original Voices program. Roddy Doyle wrote of it, "This is an excellent novel and beautifully constructed (构想). I love the book."
After the publication (出版) of her debut novel, Liz got her Master of Fine Arts in novel from Hunter College. In 2009, she moved to Philadelphia.
Her second novel, Heft, was published by W.W. Norton in January 2012. Of Heft, The New Yorker wrote, "Moore's characters are lovingly draw... a truly unusual voice". The San Francisco Chronicle wrote, "Few novelists of recent memory have put our unwelcoming loneliness into words as clearly as Liz Moore does in her new novel", and editor Sara Nelson wrote, "Beautiful... Superbly sad and heroically hopeful"" The novel was published in five countries and it was included on several "Best of 2012”lists, including the Apple iBookstore.
Moore's short novels have appeared in places such as Tin House and The New York Times. After winning a 2014 Rome Prize in Literature, she spent 2014-15 at the American Academy in Rome, completing her third novel.
The Unseen World, was published by W.W. Norton in July of 2016. It is about a moving story of a daughter's search to discover the truth about her beloved father's hidden past. Louisa Hall called it "pretty intelligent" in her review in The New York Times; The Unseen World was included on "Best of 2016" lists by The New Yorker, the BBC, Google Play, and Audible.com.
Moore's fourth novel, Long Bright River, was published by Riverhead Books in January 2020. She lives with her family in Philadelphia and is a talented member of the Master of Fine Arts program in Creative Writing at Temple University.
