Mary Carroll Moore
Mary Carroll Moore is an award-winning author of fourteen books in three genres, including the Amazon-bestselling novel, A Woman's Guide to Search & Rescue; the PEN/Faulkner-nominated young adult novel, Qualities of Light; and the forthcoming novel, Last Bets. She received her MFA from Goddard College and has taught throughout the US an.... more
Mary Carroll Moore is an award-winning author of fourteen books in three genres, including the Amazon-bestselling novel, A Woman's Guide to Search & Rescue; the PEN/Faulkner-nominated young adult novel, Qualities of Light; and the forthcoming novel, Last Bets. She received her MFA from Goddard College and has taught throughout the US and abroad at various writing schools and universities since 1998. Her writing-craft book, Your Book Starts Here, won the New Hampshire Literary Awards “Reader’s Choice” award. Before moving into fiction, she worked as a chef, a cooking-school owner, a cookbook author, and a syndicated columnist for the Los Angeles Times. Her first cookbook won a Julia Child/IACP award. Over two hundred of her essays, stories, and articles have appeared in magazines and literary journals. She lives in New Hampshire with her family.