Berwyn Moore

Berwyn Moore's third collection, Sweet Herbaceous Miracle,  won the John Ciardi Prize and was published by BkMk Press in 2018.  Her other books are the collections O Body Swayed and Dissolution of Ghosts, runnerup for the Lyre Prize, and the  edited anthology Dwelling in Possibility: Voices of Erie County. She served as the inaugural Poet Laureate of Erie County, Pennsylvania, from 2009 to 2010. She is a professor English at Gannon University where she teaches courses in creative writing and literature and advises the award-winning literary-art magazine, Totem. In 2012, she was named Gannon's Distinguished Faculty. Her poems have appeared widely in national journals, including The Southern Review, Shenandoah, Poetry Northwest, Nimrod, Journal of the American Medical Association, Kansas Quarterly, Runes, Alehouse Review, Cimarron Review and others and in the anthologies, Next Line, Please, Common Wealth: Poets on Pennsylvania, Only Morning in Her Shoes, and Life on the Line. She has poems posted on The Best American Poetry, An American Life in Poetry, Poetry Daily, Verse Daily, and The American Scholar web sites. Her articles have been published in Public Health Reports, The World and I, and the Foreign Service Journal. Her poetry has won awards from the Bellevue Literary Review, The Pinch Literary Journal, Margie: The American Journal of Poetry, Negative Capability Press, the Tom Howard Poetry Contest, and the Chester H. Jones Foundation.