Amanda Moore is a high school English teacher in San Francisco, where she lives with her husband and daughter. She has published poems in journals such as ZYZZYVA, cream city review, third coast, Tahoma Literary Review, Potomac Review, and Sequestrum, along with anthologies such as Best New Poets, A Generation Defining Itself, and Mamas and Papas: On the Sublime and Heartbreaking Art of Parenting.