Joy E. Moore
Assistant Director for the Honors Community, Honors Community
Biography
Joy Moore received her B.A. in English literature and creative writing at the University of Arkansas, during which time she attended the International Writer's course at the National University of Ireland, Galway, and she earned her M.F.A. at Pacific University. Her poems have appeared in such journals as Prairie Schooner, where she won a Glenna Luschei award, 32 Poems, Greensboro Review, and Hunger Mountain, and have been selected for inclusion in Best Spiritual Literature and Verse Daily. Her prose may be found in Spiritus and The Other Journal. During her tenure at Union, she helped establish and manage Barefoots Joe and Modero, the university鈥檚 two coffee shops and music venue. In addition to teaching courses in composition and creative writing, she serves as Assistant Director for the Honors Community, where teaches a course on beauty.
Education
- M.F.A., Pacific University
- M.A., Denver Seminary
- B.A., University of Arkansas
Recent Books
Learning the Good Life: Wisdom from the Great Hearts and Minds That Came Before
Edited by Jessica Hooten Wilson and Jacob StratmanZondervan Academic (March 2022)
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Union Contributors: Jason Crawford (Introduction to "George Herbert, Five Poems"); Joy E. Moore (Introduction to "T.S. Eliot, 'Preludes'"); Scott Huelin (Introduction to "Friedrich Nietzsche, From 'Use and Abuse of History'").
Recent Scholarship
- ARTICLE - "Go Ahead and Haunt Me" Oct 2023
- ARTICLE - "Beyond Poetry" Aug 2023
