Katherine Moore

Katherine Moore is a senior communications strategist and an aspiring fiction writer. She has worked in both the private and not-for-profit sectors, more recently in the public health field in Geneva, Switzerland, and has travelled and lived extensively throughout Europe, Africa and Asia. For the past several years, Katherine has been working on a literary novel about adolescents in the first integrated boarding school in Zimbabwe in the 1980s. An excerpt of her novel longlisted for the First Pages Prize in 2023, and her short story Burma Valley was shortlisted for the Fish Publishing Short Fiction Prize in spring 2022.

Big Bertha

I divide my life into two parts: before Hiland Mountain and after. The time between I don’t dwell on much. Why should I? It was as bleak as Eagle River’s sky in November, a granite dome strung with nimbus clouds that blocked all light and yielded only biting rain and hail. Through the steel bars, the land around the facility was covered with a thin layer of frost and ice, where off in a distant and unattainable horizon a few dots hinted at Anchorage city life.
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