Marian Denise Moore grew up in Shreveport, Louisiana and works in the city of New Orleans. An early reader, her parents encouraged a love of both science and literature. She’s been a member of two writing workshops: one led by activist and writer Kalamu ya Salaam and one led by author George Alec Effinger. Her fiction has been published in the anthology Crossroads: Tales of the Southern Literary Fantastic, the online journal Rigorous, and the anthology Dominion: An Anthology of Speculative Fiction from Africa and the African Diaspora.