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Lisa Moore

Lisa Moore is the acclaimed author of the novels Caught, February, and Alligator. Caught was a finalist for the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize and the Scotiabank Giller Prize and is now a major CBC television series starring Allan Hawco. February won CBC’s Canada Reads competition, was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, and was named a New Yorker Best Book of the Year and a Globe and Mail Top 100 Book. Alligator was a finalist for the Scotia Bank Giller Prize, won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize (Canada and the Caribbean region), and was a national bestseller. Her story collection Open was a finalist for the Scotia Bank Giller Prize and a national bestseller. Her most recent work is a collection of short stories called Something for Everyone. Lisa lives in St. John’s, Newfoundland.

Books by Lisa Moore

Hard Ticket

New Writing Made in Newfoundland

edited by Lisa Moore

This Is How We Love

by (author) Lisa Moore

Muskrat Falls

How a Mega Dam Became a Predatory Formation

edited by Lisa Moore & Stephen Crocker

Us, Now

edited by Lisa Moore
contributions by Ayse Sule Akinturk, Zay Nova, Xavier Michael Campbell, William Ping, Santiago Guzmán, Tzu-Hao Hsu, Sobia Shaheen Shaikh, Prajwala Dixit, Richard Elcock, Kyekue Mweemba & Nabila Qureshi

The Democracy Cookbook

Recipes to Renew Governance in Newfoundland and Labrador

edited by Alex Marland & Lisa Moore

Something for Everyone

by (author) Lisa Moore

These Festive Nights

by (author) Marie-Claire Blais
translated by Sheila Fischman
introduction by Lisa Moore

Luminous Ink

Writers on Writing in Canada

edited by Tessa McWatt, Rabindranath Maharaj & Dionne Brand
contributions by Margaret Atwood, Madeleine Thien, M.G. Vassanji, Lawrence Hill, Pascale Quiviger, Nino Ricci, Sheila Fischman, Heather O'Neill, Camilla Gibb, Eden Robinson, Lee Maracle, Rawi Hage, Michael Helm, Lisa Moore, Rita Wong, Hiromi Goto, George Elliott Clarke, Nicole Brossard, Judith Thompson, David Chariandy, Richard Van Camp, Marie-Hélène Poitras, Stephen Henighan, Greg Hollingshead, Michael Ondaatje & Leanne Betasamosake Simpson

Caught (TV tie-in edition)

by (author) Lisa Moore

The Bush Garden

Essays on the Canadian Imagination

by (author) Northrop Frye
introduction by Lisa Moore

Flannery

by (author) Lisa Moore

Racket

New Writing Made in Newfoundland

edited by Lisa Moore

Hard Light

Brick Books Classics 5

by (author) Michael Crummey
introduction by Lisa Moore

Alligator

by (author) Lisa Moore

Caught

by (author) Lisa Moore

The Selected Short Fiction of Lisa Moore

Open and Degrees of Nakedness

by (author) Lisa Moore
introduction by Jane Urquhart

February

by (author) Lisa Moore

Great Expectations

Twenty-Four True Stories about Childbirth

translated by Lisa Moore & Dede Crane

Human Natured

Newfoundland Nudes

by (author) Sheilagh O'Leary
foreword by Lisa Moore

Penguin Book of Contemporary Canadian Women's Short Stories

edited by Lisa Moore

Anne of Green Gables Penguin Black Classics Edition

Black Classic Edition

by (author) Lucy Maud Montgomery
foreword by Lisa Moore

Degrees of Nakedness

by (author) Lisa Moore

Open

by (author) Lisa Moore