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 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 The Best American Essays, Oxford American, Columbia Journalism Review, and elsewhere. It has also earned recognition from MacDowell, Millay Arts, The Studios at Mass MoCA, the West Virginia Humanities Council, and the Waymakers Collective.

Moore received her M.F.A. in creative writing (poetry) from the University of Montana, Missoula. She is an editor-at-large for West Virginia University Press and lives in Harrisonburg, Virginia, with her family. She is a co-founder of the West Virginia Mine Wars Museum.