Reprise from Sept 7, 2022: “Confessions of an Ex-Poetry Editor” by Ruth Moose

– “Read the poem again and call me back.”

What surprised me was how many good poets were out there.

Ruth Moose

Ruth Moose was on the Creative Writing faculty at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill for 15 years. She has published three collections of short stories, The Wreath Ribbon Quilt, Dreaming in Color, and Neighbors and Other Strangers with individual stories in numerous publications including in Holland, South Africa, England, and Denmark. Moose has published six collections of poetry, most recently, The Librarian and Other Poems and Tea. She received a MacDowell Fellowship, a North Carolina Artist Fellowship and a prestigious Chapman Award for Teaching.   

Her most recent novel The Goings on at Glen Arbor Acres is from St. Andrews University Press, a small press 50 years old in Laurinburg, NC. Her novel, Doing It at the Dixie Dew, her first novel, won the Malice Domestic prize for a first traditional mystery and was published by St. Martin's Press in 2014, with a sequel Wedding Bell Blues in 2016. Ruth lives in Albemarle, North Carolina where she grew up and where her sons and families live.