Liz Moore is a writer, musician, and teacher.She wrote most of her first novel, THE WORDS OF EVERY SONG (Broadway Books, 2007), while in college. The book, which centers on a fictional record company in present-day New York City, draws partly on Liz's own experiences as a musician. After the publication of her debut novel, Liz released an album, BACKYARDS, and obtained her MFA in Fiction from Hunter College. In 2009, Liz was awarded the University of Pennsylvania's ArtsEdge residency and moved from New York to Philadelphia. She has taught Creative Writing at Hunter College and the University of Pennsylvania. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Writing at Holy Family University in Philadelphia.Her second novel is HEFT (W.W. Norton, January 2012).