Ellene Glenn Moore is an American writer living in Zürich. She is the author of How Blood Works (Kent State University Press, 2021), selected by Richard Blanco for the Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize, and Passage (Orison Press, forthcoming), winner of the Orison Chapbook Prize for Nonfiction. Ellene holds a PhD in Creative Writing from Bath Spa University, an MFA in Poetry from Florida International University, and a BA in Creative Writing from Carnegie Mellon University. She has been the recipient of a John S. and James L. Knight Foundation Fellowship in Poetry, a scholarship to the New York State Summer Writers Institute, and a residency at The Studios of Key West. Ellene’s poetry, lyric non-fiction, and critical work has appeared in West Branch, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Best New Poets, Poetry Northwest, Brevity, and elsewhere.