Dinty W Moore

Dinty W. Moore is the author of the memoir Between Panic & Desire, winner of the Grub Street Nonfiction Book Prize. His other books include The Accidental Buddhist, Toothpick Men, The Emperor's Virtual Clothes, Dear Mister Essay Writer Guy, and The Mindful Writer: Noble Truths of the Writing Life. Additionally, Moore edited THE ROSE METARL PRESS FIELD GUIDE TO WRITING FLASH NONFICTION: ADVISE AND ESSENTIAL EXERCISES FROM RESPECTED WRITERS, EDITORS, AND TEACHERS (Rose Metal Press, 2012) an...See more

Dinty W. Moore is the author of the memoir Between Panic & Desire, winner of the Grub Street Nonfiction Book Prize. His other books include The Accidental Buddhist, Toothpick Men, The Emperor's Virtual Clothes, Dear Mister Essay Writer Guy, and The Mindful Writer: Noble Truths of the Writing Life. Additionally, Moore edited THE ROSE METARL PRESS FIELD GUIDE TO WRITING FLASH NONFICTION: ADVISE AND ESSENTIAL EXERCISES FROM RESPECTED WRITERS, EDITORS, AND TEACHERS (Rose Metal Press, 2012) an anthology of craft essays and writing prompts that works well alongside the essays here in THE BEST OF BRIVITY (Rose Metal Press, 2020). He has published his work in The Georgia Review, Harper's, The New York Times Magazine, The Iowa Review, and elsewhere. He is editor-in-chief of Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction, and has taught writing workshops across the United States as well as in Mexico, Scotland, Ireland, Spain, Switzerland, and Canada. See less