Honor Moore will read from her moving and timely new memoir, A Termination. She will be joined in conversation by author Mary Allen.  “This book is a meditation, back and forth in time, on art, life, and what truly constitutes freedom of choice. How does a solo female make a destiny for herself instead of submitting to one? Moore uses feminism, lyricism, and the hard-won wisdom of aging. She turns the fraught political issue of abortion into a resonant echo chamber for each of our lives.”- Margo Jefferson

Honor Moore is the author of seven books, including the memoirs The Bishop’s Daughter and Our Revolution: A Mother and Daughter at Midcentury, and three collections of poems. She edited Poems from the Women’s Movement and, with Alix Kates Shulman, the Library of America anthology Women’s Liberation!: Feminist Writings that Inspired a Revolution and Still Can. Her work has appeared in publications including The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The American Scholar, Salmagundi, The New Republic, and Freeman’s. She has been poet in residence at Wesleyan and the University of Richmond, visiting professor at the Columbia School of the Arts and three times the Visiting Distinguished Writer in the Nonfiction Writing Program at the University of Iowa. She lives in New York City, where she teaches in the MFA program at the New School.

She will be joined in conversation by Mary Allen. Allen is the author of a literary memoir, The Rooms of Heaven, and the personal essay collection, The Deep Limitless Air: A Memoir in Pieces. She has a regular “personal perspectives” blog on the Psychology Today website and has published short work in Poets & Writers, Real Simple, Library Journal, CNN On-line, Shenandoah, Tiferet Journal, The Chaos, and Beloit Fiction Review.  She lives in Iowa City and is a full-time writing coach.