About the Author

Catherine Venable Moore is a nonfiction writer, editor, and public historian from West Virginia.

She is the author of Solidarity Song, a nonfiction history of the Battle of Blair Mountain and the West Virginia Mine Wars, to be published by Random House on April 13, 2027. Her manuscript won a 2021 Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant and a National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholars Grant.

Her writing has been published in Best American Essays and earned recognition from MacDowell, Millay Colony, The Studios at Mass MoCA, the West Virginia Humanities Council, and the Waymakers Collective.

She is an editor-at-large for West Virginia University Press and lives in Harrisonburg, Virginia, with her family.