B. Sharise Moore serves as the Hurston/Wright Foundation’s Publications and Outreach Manager. She has worked with the foundation since 2022, first serving as a virtual instructor for the Hurston/Wright Writing and Professional Development Institute and later selected as the 2023 Hurston/Wright Writer-in-Residence. During her residency with the Hurston/Wright Foundation from February-June 2023, B.Sharise Moore served as the inaugural Legacy Awards judge for the Speculative Fiction category. In addition, she created a database of children’s book and YA novels written by Black authors that center the experiences of people of African descent. She debuted the database in 2023 during a workshop she led during Hurston/Wright’s inaugural #ReadBlackBooks Summer Symposium for parents and educators.
B. Sharise Moore is an award-winning multi-genre author, curriculum designer, and Poetry Editor for FIYAH Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction. In 2020, she received the Sustainable Arts Foundation Award for YA Fiction and her poem, Black Beak was nominated for a 2022 Dwarf Star Award. In 2022, she edited the acclaimed curriculum text, Conjuring Worlds: An Afrofuturist Textbook for Middle and High School Students. Her forthcoming books include Fangs, Feathers, and Folklore, a field guide of African mythological creatures (Algonquin Young Readers, 2024) and Fatimah’s Fantastic City, a picture book from HarperCollins (2025). She lives in Baltimore, MD with her husband and children.