Harry Moore grew up on a small farm in East Central Alabama. With degrees in English from Auburn University, Rice University, and Middle Tennessee State University, he taught freshman comp and sophomore literature in community college for four decades.
His poems have appeared in the Elk River Review, The Distillery, Alabama Literary Review, POEM, South Carolina Review, Avocet, Ship of Fools, Anglican Theological Review, Penwood Review, Main Street Rag, Sow's Ear Poetry Review, Slipstream and other journals.
In 2014 he received the Maureen Egen Writers Exchange Award from Poets & Writers.
Since retiring from teaching in 2009, he has published seven books of poetry:
- What He Would Call Them, Finishing Line Press, 2013 (chapbook)
- Time's Fool: Love Poems, Mule on a Ferris Wheel Press, 2014 (chapbook)
- Retreat: A Way Forward, Finishing Line Press, 2017 (chapbook)
- Bearing the Farm Away, Kelsay Books, 2018 (full collection)
- Beyond Paradise: The Unweeded Garden, Main Street Rag Publications, 2020 (chapbook)
- Broken and Blended: Love's Alchemy, Kelsay Books, 2021 (full collection)
- We the People: Confessions of a Caucasian Southerner, Broadstone Books, 2024 (full collection)
He lives with his wife, Cassandra, in Decatur, Alabama.
