About

LISA L. MOORE is the author of the critical works Sister Arts: The Erotics of Lesbian Landscapes, which won the Lambda Literary Award, and Dangerous Intimacies: Toward a Sapphic History of the Novel, as well as the poetry chapbook 24 Hours of Men. Her articles, essays and reviews have appeared in venues including The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Hopkins Review, Diversity and Democracy, Critical Inquiry, Eighteenth-Century Studies, GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, and Feminist Studies.  Her poems have appeared in Zócalo Public Square, Waxing and Waning, Nimrod International Journal, Borderlands Texas Poetry Review and other journals and magazines.

Born and raised in Calgary, Canada, Lisa grew up reading books and riding horses. Lisa attended Queen’s University in Kingston Ontario, where she helped design its first Introduction to Women’s Studies class, and co-edited the literary magazine The Conduit with future political theorist Paisley Currah. Lisa moved to Austin, Texas in 1991 to take a feminist theory job in the English department at The University of Texas at Austin. She lives in the belly of the beast with her wife Madge, a theater artist who teaches in the Department of Theater and Dance at UT, and their family. They have two adult children, both musicians.

Lisa was a founder of the Pride and Equity Faculty-Staff Association at UT-Austin and was active in the fight for equitable compensation for queer employees. She also helped start Gun-Free UT, a community of activists protesting the legalization of guns in Texas university classrooms. Lisa was a plaintiff in Glass v. Paxton, which argued that allowing concealed, loaded weapons in college classrooms is creates a chilling effect on free speech. In 2015, she was named "One of Ten Americans Who Changed the Gun Debate This Year" in The Trace.

Lisa is a member of The Austin Project, an artist-activist-academic collaborative project led by Dr. Omi Osun Jones and Sharon Bridgforth. Lisa treasures her longtime meditation practice, her neighborhood pool, and her small role in Richard Linklater’s film Waking Life.