Ellene Glenn Moore is an American writer living in Zürich. She is the author of the forthcoming lyric essay collection Provenance (Seneca Review Books), winner of the 2026 Deborah Tall Lyric Essay Prize, as well as How Blood Works (Kent State University Press, 2021), winner of the Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize, and Passage (Orison Books, 2025), 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, prose, and German-to-English translations have appeared in West Branch, New England Review, Best New Poets, Poetry Northwest, Brevity, and elsewhere.