B. Sharise Moore

B. Sharise Moore is an author, curriculum developer, and Poetry Editor for FIYAH Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction. In 2020, she received the Sustainable Arts Foundation Award for YA Fiction. In 2022, her poem, Black Beak, was nominated for a Dwarf Star Award and she edited and published Conjuring Worlds: An Afrofuturist Textbook for Middle and High School Students. Moore is currently a writing workshop facilitator, writing coach, and the 2023 Writer in Residence with The Hurston Wright Foundation. Her forthcoming books include Fangs, Feathers, and Folklore, a middle grade field guide of African mythological creatures from Algonquin Young Readers in 2025, Fatimah’s Fantastic City, and Golden: a Story of Yaa Asantewaa from Harper Collins in 2025 and 2026. She lives in Baltimore, MD with her husband and their two children.