Dinty W. Moore was born and raised in Erie, Pennsylvania,
and spent his formative years fishing for bluegill, riding a bike
with a banana seat, and dodging the Sisters of St. Joseph. He earned
a BA in writing from the University of Pittsburgh, worked briefly
as a journalist, and also served short stints as a documentary filmmaker,
modern
dance performer, zookeeper,
and Greenwich Village waiter. It was only after failing at each of
these professions that he went on to earn an MFA in fiction writing
from Louisiana State University.
A National Endowment for the Arts fellowship recipient,
Moore has guest taught creative nonfiction seminars across the United
States and in Europe. In addition to editing the internet journal,
Brevity, he is on the editorial board of Creative Nonfiction
and is coordinating editor for the anthology Best Creative Nonfiction
(W.W. Norton).
Moore teaches writing at Ohio University and serves
on the Board of Directors of The Association of Writers & Writing
Programs.
Currently, in addition to producing books, essays, and stories, Dinty
enjoys photography, and wants everyone to visit his Flickr
Photo Stream.
His name, by the way, derives from the comic strip Bringing
Up Father, and the cigar-chomping, neer-do-well comic strip character
Dinty Moore, portrayed here.
A full account of his peculiar name and how he came to own it can
be found in the Summer 2007 issue of The
Southern Review.
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