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ROD VAL MOORE

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Brittle Star

ROD VAL MOORE was born in Ogden, Utah, but has spent most of his life in California, earning degrees in English from UC Berkeley and UC Davis, and a masters degree in
linguistics from USC.

He has published short stories in a variety of journals, including The Western Humanities Review, Prairie Schooner, and Chicago Quarterly Review. In 1994 he won the Iowa Fiction Award for his story collection, Igloo Among Palms, which was subsequently published by the University of Iowa Press, as well as by Hinterlands Press. In 2013 his novel A History of Hands won the Juniper Prize for Fiction, sponsored by the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and was published by them in 2014.

Over the last few years he has completed residencies at the Millay Colony for the Arts in New York, Ragdale in Illinois, Virginia Center for Creative Arts, and the MacDowell Colony in New Hampshire, where he finished his What Books Press novel Brittle Star. He has taught English, linguistics, and creative writing at a variety of institutions, and lives in midcity L.A. with his wife, the artist Lisa Bloomfield.

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PHOTO Lisa Bloomfield