Lisa Moore
Lisa Moore reads from a short story about an elementary school sports day in NewFoundland. A tug of war competition becomes a deft parable about how to communicate with her six-year old son about death. Lisa Moore is introduced by Sheryl MacKay.
Lisa Moore's novels and short story collections can be purchased from your local independent bookseller or from these online retailers:
Lisa Moore has written two collections of stories, Degrees of Nakedness and Open, as well as two novels, Alligator and February. Open and Alligator were both nominated for the Scotiabank Giller Prize. Alligator won the Commonwealth Prize for the Canadian Caribbean Region and the ReLit Award, and Open won the Canadian Authors' Association Jubilee Prize for Short Fiction. Moore has also written for television, radio, magazines and newspapers. She has a Bachelor of Arts degree from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and has studied at Memorial University of Newfoundland, where she became a member of The Burning Rock Collective, a group of St. John's writers. (APRIL 2010)
