Carolyn Moore’s four chapbooks won their respective competitions. Her book, What Euclid’s Third Axiom Neglects To Mention about Circles, appeared in 2013 as winner of the White Pine Press Poetry Prize. Moore taught at Humboldt State University (Arcata, California) until able to eke out a living as a freelance writer and researcher working from the last vestige of the family farm in Tigard, Oregon.