Mary Moore Easter’s first poetry collection is The Body of the World (Mad Hat Press 2018) which was a finalist for the 2017 Prairie Schooner Book Prize. She is also author of the chapbook, Walking From Origins (Heywood Press). A sampling of her publications includes Poetry, Waterstone, NY Times, The Portable Boog Reader and Prairie Schooner.

She is a Pushcart Prize-nominated poet; Cave Canem Fellow; veteran dancer/choreographer and emerita professor of dance at Carleton College. Easter has been honored by Bush and McKnight fellowships and The Loft Creative Non-Fiction Award.