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Indigo Moor’s “Tap-Root” was published in 2006 as part of Main Street Rag’s Editor’s Select Poetry Series. Indigo is a 2003 recipient of Cave Canem’s Writing fellowship in poetry, former vice president of the Sacramento Poetry Center, and editorial board for the Tule Review. He is the winner of the 2005 Vesle Fenstermaker Poetry Prize for Emerging Writers. His work has appeared in the Xavier Review, LA Review, Mochila Review, Boston University’s The Comment, The Ringing Ear, the NCPS 2006 Anthology, and Gathering Ground. Other honors include: finalist for the T.S. Eliot Prize and the Crab Orchard First Book Prize.

                                             

 

Born May 27th 1964 Charlotte, NC

Currently Residing in Rancho Cordova, CA

 

Occupation:

        IC Physical Design, Intel Corporation

        Lecturer

        Workshop Facilitator

 

Distinctions:

        Vice President Sacramento Poetry Center

        Graduate Member Artist's Residency institute       

        2003 recipient of Cave Canem’s writing fellowship in poetry

        2005 Vesle Fenstermaker Poetry Prize for Emerging Writers

 

Awards and Recognition:

        T.S. Eliot prize finalist

        Naomi Long Madgett Award finalist

        Crab Orchard First Book Prize finalist

        Saturnalia Book Award finalist

        Scholarship to the Summer Literary Series in St. Petersburg Russia

 

 

Conferences:

        Napa Valley Writer’s Conference (fellowship recipient)

        Idyllwild Summer Arts Academy (fellowship recipient)

 

        

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