Meet Our Speaker: Bailey Gaylin Moore

Bailey Gaylin Moore is the author of Thank You for Staying with Me, winner of the International Book Award for Best New Nonfiction, an IPPY gold medalist winner, and a finalist for the Foreword Indies Best Essays of 2025.Her essays have appeared in HuffPost, Poets & Writers, Oxford American, The Writer’s Chronicle, AGNI, Brevity, and Pleiades, among other journals. She serves as Editor-in-Chief of Past Ten and edited The Past Ten: An Anthology, which features writers reflecting on where they were ten years ago.