Indigo Moor
by Crawdad Nelson
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Indigo Moor is a poet, author, and playwright. His second book, Through the Stonecutter’s Window was selected for the 2009 Cave Canem Northwestern University Poetry Prize.
His first book Tap-Root was published in 2007 as part of Main Street Rag’s
Editor’s Select Poetry Series. He is a 2003 recipient of Cave Canem’s Writing fellowship,
former vice president of the Sacramento Poetry Center, and former editor for the Tule Review.
He is the winner of the 2005 Vesle Fenstermaker Prize for Emerging Writers and the 2008 Jack Kerouac Poetry Prize.
Other honors include: finalist for the T.S. Eliot Prize, Crab Orchard First Book Prize, Saturnalia First Book Award, Naomi Long Madgett Book Award, and WordWorks Poetry Prize. He has received scholarships to the Summer Literary Series in St. Petersburg Russia, the 2006 Idyllwild Summer Poetry Program, the Indiana University Writer’s Conference, and the Napa Valley Writer’s Conference Review.
His short stories and poetry have appeared in the Arkansas Review, Xavier Review, LA Review,
Mochila Review, Boston University’s The Comment, the Pushcart Prize
nominated Out of the Blue Artists Unite, Poetry Now,
Black Nature: Four Centuries of African-American Nature Poetry, Cave Canem Anthologies VIII and IX,
The Ringing Ear, the NCPS 2006 Anthology, Blue Moon Literary & Arts Review,
Breathe 101: Contemporary Odes, and Gathering Ground.
He was recently the featured artist for the Suisun Valley Review.
Indigo is a graduate member of the Artist's Residency Institute for Teaching Artists and
teaches residencies and workshops across the country and is enrolled in the
Stonecoast MFA program for the University of Southern Maine where he is studying Poetry, Fiction, and Playwriting.
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Tap-Root
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Through the Stonecutter's Window
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