Lisa Moore has written three collections of short stories, Degrees of Nakedness and Open, and Something for Everyone, and four novels, Alligator, February, Caught and This Is How We Love as well as a stage play, based on her novel February. Lisa has also written a young adult novel called Flannery. And she has written with Jack Whalen the creative Non-fiction book, Invisible Prisons, which was short-listed for the Hilary Weston Prize in 2024.
Her novels and short story collections have each been translated into some or most of these languages: French, Spanish, Italian, Danish, German, Turkish, and recently Alligator was purchased in the territory of Georgia for translation. Her work has also been published in the U.K. and U.S. territories.
She is also a co-librettist for the opera based on February, with composer Laura Kaminsky, which premiered in 2023. Lisa’s has written a site-specific supernatural novella set in Grenoble, France. This novella explores the art of translation through the genre of the supernatural. Lisa’s most recent novel is called This Is How We Love. And she has written, with Jack Whalen, the creative Non-fiction book, Invisible Prisons, which was short-listed for the Hilary Weston Prize in 2024.
Alligator and Caught, and her short story collection Open were nominated for the Scotiabank Giller Prize. Her novel February was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and won CBC Canada Reads in 2013. She is also the winner of the Writer’s Trust Engel Findley Award for Fiction and the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for the Canada/Caribbean region. Something for Everyone was longlisted for the Giller Prize and won the Alistair MacLeod Prize for Short Fiction and the Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award.
Lisa is the co-editor, along with Alex Marland, of the non-fiction essay collection The Democracy Cookbook. She is also co-editor, along with Steve Crocker, of the non-fiction essay collection Muskrat Falls: How a Megadam Became a Predatory Formation, and with Dede Crane, the co-editor of Great Expectations: 24 True Stories about Birth by Canadian Writers.
She is the editor of Us, Now, a collection of short fiction by new Canadians living in Newfoundland, and the anthology Hard Ticket, a collection of short stories from Newfoundland and the editor of Best Canadian Stories 2024. Lisa has written numerous creative non-fiction essays for various publications including The Globe and Mail, Brick Magazine, Chatelaine, Cottage Life, The Walrus and Canadian Art.
Most recently Lisa has written the script for the short film Marguerite produced by Opera on the Avalon, along with four arias around which the film is based. Her novel Caught was adapted by Take the Shot Productions for a CBC television series.
Lisa studied conceptual art at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and is a Full Professor in the English Department of Memorial University where she teaches Creative Writing.
Congratulations Lisa