Dinty W. Moore (born August 11, 1955) is an American essayist and writer of both fiction and non-fiction books.
He received the Grub Street National Book Prize for Non-Fiction for his memoir, Between Panic and Desire, in 2008 and is also author of the memoir To Hell With It: Of Sin and Sex, Chicken Wings, and Dante’s Entirely Ridiculous, Needlessly Guilt-Inducing Inferno, the writing guides The Story Cure, Crafting the Personal Essay, and The Mindful Writer, and many other books and edited anthologies.
[citation needed] In 1990, Moore completed his Master of Fine Arts in writing at the Louisiana State University.
[5] Moore launched the online literary magazine Brevity in 1997,[6] which focuses on short creative nonfiction essays with a maximum of 750 words.
The New York Times wrote of the book, "The immersive effect of reading this anthology straight through is the opposite of a flash experience, and is also lovely, like rolling down a sidewalk of lit windows...So much beauty, so much grief — the whole range of experience flashing by, leaving impressions as it passes.