ARTIST BIO

MariJo Moore, of Cherokee, Irish and Dutch ancestry is an author/artist/poet/ essayist/lecturer/editor/publisher/workshop presenter. She attended Tennessee State University in Nashville, Tennessee, and Lancashire Polytechnic in Preston, England, where she received the equivalent of a BA in Literature. Her published works include Crow Quotes, Desert Quotes, Spirit Voices of Bones, Tree Quotes, Red Woman With Backward Eyes and Other Stories (rENEGADE pLANETS pUBLISHING); Feeding the Ancient Fires: A Collection of Writings by North Carolina American Indians (editor, Cross Roads Press); The Ice Man, The First Fire, The Cherokee Little People, (children's books published by Rigby Education); and a bilingual edition (Dutch/English) Woestijnwoorden (Desert Words) published by Uitgeverij Kramat, Belgium, and Genocide of the Mind: New Writings by Native Americans (editor, Nations Books/Thunders Mouth Press NY). Her novel The Diamond Doorknob, was released in October 2003.

Ms. Moore was honored with the prestigious award of North Carolina's Distinguished Woman of the Year in the Arts in 1998. She was chosen by Native Peoples magazine as one of the top five American Indian writers of the new century (June/July 2000 issue). Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers chose her as creative prose fiction Writer of the Year in 2002 for her book Red Woman With Backward Eyes and Other Stories. She is presently helping to orchestrate The Poetry Celebration, an international ceremony for the National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian, Washington, DC.

She is founder of rENEGADE pLANETS pUBLISHING, which was chosen as Publisher of the Year by Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers in 2001. Recent publications include PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH THE INDIANS by Joseph A. Dandurand, First Nation Kwantlen, British Columbia.

rENEGADE pLANETS pUBLISHING
P.O. Box 2493
Candler, NC 28725
renegadepl@aol.com

An independently owned American Indian business.
Chosen as Small Press of the Year by Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers, 2001.

Books by rENEGADE pLANETS pUBLISHING / MariJo Moore:

Crow Quotes
Tree Quotes
Desert Quotes
Spirit Voices of Bones
Red Woman With Backward Eyes and Other Stories
The Diamond Doorknob

Books by rENEGADE pLANETS pUBLISHING / Joesph A. Dandurand:

Please Do Not Touch The Indians

Website:

www.marijomoore.com