Julie L. Moore is a Best of the Net and eight-time Pushcart Prize nominated author of four poetry collections, including the acclaimed collections Particular Scandals and Full Worm Moon. Moore’s poetry has won Fare Forward’s poetry competition, the Janet B. McCabe Poetry Prize from Ruminate, the Editor’s Choice Award from Writecorner Press, and the Rosine Offen Memorial Award from the Free Lunch Arts Alliance. Her poems have been included in art exhibitions, inspired a musical composition for the Chorale at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, and received an Award of Merit from The Associated Church Press.
Julie L. Moore’s Devil’s Backbone is a fearless, morally urgent reckoning with American history, white supremacy, and the self. Moore confronts inherited cruelties, national hypocrisy, and personal responsibility with unflinching honesty, confessing that she is “more than / complicit” as “a fragile,
