LIZ MOORE’s first novel, The Words of Every Song (2007), explores a fictional record company in New York City and was selected for Borders’ Original Voices program. The New Yorker praised the original voice of her second novel, Heft (2012). Following her MFA from Hunter College and a residency at the University of Pennsylvania, Moore published The Unseen World (2016), which garnered accolades from The New York Times and was included in numerous “Best of 2016” lists. Her fourth novel, Long Bright River (2020), was a Good Morning America Book Club Pick and one of Barack Obama’s favorite books of the year. The God of the Woods, Moore’s literary thriller, was The New York Times best crime novel of 2024. A winner of the 2014 Rome Prize in Literature and an Edgar Award and L.A. Times Book Prize nominee, Moore lives in Philadelphia, where she directs the MFA program in Creative Writing at Temple University

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Las novelas de Liz Moore son irresistibles. Su novela más reciente, El dios de los bosques, elegida por el New York Times mejor novela negra de 2024 y número uno del año por la revista People, es un thriller complejo y fascinante que aborda cuestiones de clase, pérdida y supervivencia. Desde el momento en que desaparece una joven monitora de campamento hasta la resolución final, el lector se encuentra inmerso en una apasionante novela policíaca protagonizada por personajes, al tiempo que queda asombrado por la ambición y el arte de la autora.

Fotografía: Maggie Casey