Bailey Gaylin Moore is an Ozarks-based author and PhD student in the Creative Writing program at the University of Missouri-Columbia. She enjoys loud music on backroads and slowly amassing houseplants named Robert. She's spent an alarming amount of time and energy convincing her teenager that she’s still cool, even though he doesn’t think her Robert Plant joke is funny. Even more recently, she's learned convincing teenagers of anything is kind of like talking into a fun void.

 

Aside from measuring time with fun voids, Bailey serves as the Editor-in-Chief for Past Ten, a collaborative literary project rooted in time-travel, asking artists to reflect on where and who they were ten years ago. 

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Her essay collection, THANK YOU FOR STAYING WITH ME, is set to come out with University of Nebraska Press (American Lives Series, edited by Tobias Wolff) March 1st, 2025. You can pre-order her book here.

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