Marshall Moore (born in June 1970), in Havelock, North Carolina, is an American author and academic living in Cornwall, England. He attended the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics (NCSSM) and went on to obtain a BA in psychology from East Carolina University, an MA in applied linguistics from the University of New England, and a PhD in creative writing from Aberystwyth University in Wales. He has also studied at Gallaudet University. He has lived in New Bern, Winston-Salem, Greensboro, Washington DC, Maryland, Oakland, Portland, Seattle, the suburbs of Seoul, and Hong Kong. Fluent in American Sign Language, he worked for many years as an interpreter before moving abroad. Bibliography Novels The Concrete Sky, Binghamton, NY: Haworth Press, 2003 An Ideal for Living, Maple Shade, NJ: Lethe Press, 2010 Bitter Orange, Hong Kong: Signal 8 Press, 2013 Inhospitable, Manchester: Camphor Press, 2018 Nonfiction I Wouldn't Normally Do This Kind of Thing: A Memoir, New Orleans: Rebel Satori Press, 2022 Blood and Black T-Shirts: Dispatches from Hong Kong's Descent into Hell 2019-2020, Manchester: Camphor Press, 2023 Short story collections Black Shapes in a Darkened Room, San Francisco: Suspect Thoughts Press, 2004 The Infernal Republic, Hong Kong: Signal 8 Press, 2012 A Garden Fed by Lightning, Hong Kong: Signal 8 Press, 2016 Love Is a Poisonous Color, New Orleans: Rebel Satori Press, 2023 In translation Sagome nere, Turin: 96, Rue de-la-Fontaine Edizioni, 2017 (Translator: Rossella Cirigliano) Edited anthologies (short fiction) The Queen of Statue Square: New Short Fiction from Hong Kong (Co-editor: Xu Xi), Nottingham: Critical, Cultural & Communications Press, 2014 Edited academic nonfiction The Place and the Writer: International Intersections of Teacher Lore and Creative Writing Pedagogy (Co-editor: Sam Meekings) London: Bloomsbury - Continuum, 2021 Creative Writing Scholars on the Publishing Trade: Practice, Praxis, Print (Co-editor: Sam Meekings) London: Routledge, 2022 The Scholarship of Creative Writing Practice: Beyond Craft, Pedagogy, and the Academy (Co-editor: Sam Meekings) London: Bloomsbury - Continuum, 2023–24 Chapbooks Il look del diavolo, Hong Kong: Signal 8 Press, 2011 Never Turn Away, Hong Kong: Signal 8 Press, 2013 In addition to these books, Moore has published dozens of short stories, book reviews, and essays. His work has been translated into Greek, Polish, and Italian. External links Marshall Moore website 1970 births East Carolina University alumni 21st-century American novelists American male novelists Living people People from Havelock, North Carolina American gay writers Novelists from North Carolina LGBT people