Lorrie Moore
- Title
- Delmore Schwartz Professor in the Humanities
- Office
- 7181 Helen C. White Hall
- Phone
- (608) 263-3613
- E-mail Lorrie Moore
- Interests
- Creative Writing
Degrees and Institutions
M.F.A., Cornell University, 1982
BA, summa cum laude, St. Lawrence University, 1978
Honorary doctorates in literature: St. Lawrence University, 2004; Lawrence University, 2000
Selected Publications and Awards
Lorrie Moore is the author of the short story collections Self-Help, Like Life, and Birds of America, and the novels Anagrams, Who Will Run the Frog Hospital, and A Gate at the Stairs. She is the editor of the fiction anthologies I Know Some Things: Stories about Childhood by Contemporary Writers and Best American Short Stories 2004. Her work appears in The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times, Paris Review, and many other literary publications. Her short stories have frequently been reprinted in anthologies, including The Best American Short Stories of the Century, edited by John Updike; the Best American Short Stories anthologies; and the Prize Stories: The O'Henry Awards series. She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Lannan Foundation, and the Rockefeller Foundation. She is the recipient of numerous awards including the Rea Award for the Short Story and the Irish Times International Prize for Fiction, and is a member of both the Wisconsin Academy of Science, Arts, and Letters, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Research Interests
Creative writing; literary reviews and essays.