Writers in Camden: (10th Anniversary Programming) – Liz Moore

Acclaimed author Liz Moore will read from her work in Rutgers-Camden’s Gordon Theater.

Liz Moore

Liz Moore is the author of The God of the Woods, Long Bright River, The Unseen World, Heft, and The Words of Every Song. The God of the Woods debuted as the #1 bestseller among independent bookstores across the United States, was selected by Barack Obama for inclusion on his Summer Reading List, was chosen by Barnes & Noble as their national book club choice for July 2024, was selected by viewers of The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon as their choice for the Summer 2024 Fallon Book Club, for which Liz Moore made an appearance on the show, and has been sold for translation in twenty-eight foreign territories to date. Long Bright River was an instant New York Times bestseller, a Book of the Month Club pick, and the January selection for the Good Morning America book club. 

In addition, it launched the New York Times’s Group Text monthly feature. Barack Obama also selected Long Bright River as one of his favorite books of 2020. A limited-series adaptation of Long Bright River—co-created, executive produced, and co-written by Moore, and starring Amanda Seyfried—will premiere on Peacock in 2025. Both The Unseen World and The God of the Woods have been optioned by Sony Pictures Television, with Moore in a writing/producing capacity. Moore’s short fiction and creative nonfiction have appeared in venues such as Tin House, The New York Times, and Narrative Magazine. She is the winner of the Medici Book Club Prize, Philadelphia’s Athenaeum Literary Award, and a 2014 Rome Prize in Literature. Moore lives with her family in Philadelphia and is Director of the MFA program in Creative Writing at Temple University.

Free admission. Registration encouraged. Refreshments provided. Books available for purchase.

Writers in Camden

Writers in Camden is a long-running reading series on the Rutgers-Camden campus, inviting acclaimed novelists, poets, and nonfiction writers to share their work with students and the public.