Dinty W. Moore is the author of the memoirs Between Panic & Desire (Bison Books, 2010) and To Hell with It (University of Nebraska Press, 2021), and the writing guides Crafting the Personal Essay (Writer’s Digest Books; Penguin Random House, 2010) and The Mindful Writer (Wisdom Publications, 2016), among other books. He has published essays and stories in Harper’s, The New York Times Magazine, The Georgia Review, The Kenyon Review, Short Reads, and elsewhere. He is founding editor of Brevity, the journal of flash nonfiction.
Nonfiction
“If This Were Fiction”: Tyrese L. Coleman’s “How to Mourn”
From the first sentences, Tyrese L. Coleman’s essay “How to Mourn” turns a somersault, becomes a Möbius strip, an Escher: “If you read my fiction, you will find a character […]
Nov/Dec 2020
An Excerpt from “The Burning Bush”
Read a micro-conversation with the author here. . . . I learned They suffer here who sinned in carnal things— Their reason mastered by desire, suborned. —Dante, Inferno, Canto V […]
Nonfiction
Nov/Dec 2020
The Burning Bush
. . . I learned They suffer here who sinned in carnal things — Their reason mastered by desire, suborned. — Dante, Inferno, Canto V Nora Serafini had a toy cash register […]
Dinty W. Moore
Dinty W. Moore is author of the memoir Between Panic & Desire, The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing Flash Nonfiction and many other books. He has published essays […]