Lorrie Moore was born in Glen Falls, New York on January 13, 1957. She graduated summa cum laude from St. Lawrence University in Canton, New York, in 1978. She received an MFA from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, in 1982. She is currently Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
Lorrie Moore received the National Endowment for the Arts award in 1989, the Rockefeller Foundation fellowship in 1989, and the Guggenheim fellowship in 1991. Her work frequently appears in Fiction International, Ms, The New York Times Book Review, Paris Review, The New Yorker, and others.
Her publications include: Self-Help (1985); Anagrams (1986); The Forgotten Helper (1987); Like Life (1990); editor, I Know Some Things: Stories About Childhood by Contemporary Writers (1992); Who Will Run the Frog Hospital? (1994) and Birds of America
