Mary Moore Easter

Pushcart Prize-nominated Mary Moore Easter’s The Body of the World (MadHat, Inc, 2018), was a finalist for the 2017 Prairie Schooner Book Prize. A Cave Canem Fellow, her work has been published in many journals and anthologies, including Blues Vision: African American Writing from Minnesota, and her chapbook Walking from Origins. Her honors include a Bush Artist Fellowship, multiple McKnight Artist Fellowships, The Loft Creative Non-Fiction Award, and Ragdale and Anderson Center residencies. She founded and directed Carleton College’s Dance Program and co-mentored the Givens Black Writers Program (2015-17).