David Biespiel In Conversation With Susan Moore

David Biespiel is a poet, novelist, critic, memoirist, and painter. The author of a dozen books, most recently, Beautiful Is the World: New and Selected Poems, 1996-2026, he is a contributing writer at the New Republic, The New Yorker, Slate, American Poetry Review, and Poetry. For his writing, he has received two Oregon Book Awards, Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award, and Lannan, National Endowment for the Arts, and Stegner fellowships, as well as been a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Balakian citation. He is Poet-in-Residence at Oregon State University where he teaches in the graduate Creative Writing Program and founder of the Attic Institute of Arts and Letters.

Susan Moore is the director of programs for writers at Literary Arts. She directs the Oregon Book Awards & Fellowships, oversees the writing classes and Delve seminars, and works with Program for Writers Manager Alexa Winik to curate free literary events with community partners in our community space. Prior to working at Literary Arts, she was awarded an Oregon Literary Fellowship in poetry in 2002. She is the author of That Place Where You Opened Your Hands (University of Massachusetts Press), the winner of the Juniper Prize in poetry. She earned her Masters in Writing from Portland State University. She has lived in Portland since 1988.