Liz Moore is a writer, musician, and teacher. She began playing music while growing up in suburban Boston. As an undergrad at Barnard College in New York City, she began performing regularly at venues like The Living Room, Rockwood Music Hall, Piano's, Postcrypt, and the Knitting Factory. Since graduating she has continued to perform along the East Coast both solo and with The Liz Moore Band. She's been a featured performer at the GottaGetGon Festival in upstate New York and the Roots & Rhythm Festival in Pennsylvania. Liz also completed most of her first novel, THE WORDS OF EVERY SONG (Broadway Books, 2007), while in college. The book, which centers on a fictional record company in present-day New York City, draws partly on Liz's own experiences as a musician. It was selected for Borders' Original Voices program, received 3.5/4 stars in PEOPLE Magazine, and was given a starred review by Kirkus. Roddy Doyle wrote of it, "This is a remarkable novel, elegant, wise, and beautifully constructed. I loved the book." Since the publication of her debut novel, Liz has released an album, BACKYARDS, and obtained her MFA in Fiction from Hunter College, where she studied with Peter Carey, Colum McCann, and Nathan Englander. She began teaching creative writing courses to undergraduates as a graduate student. After being awarded the University of Pennsylvania's ArtsEdge residency, she moved to Philadelphia in the summer of 2009. This year, she is teaching creative writing, composition, and literature at Holy Family University and the University of Pennsylvania. She is in the final stretch of her second novel.