Janice Moore Fuller

Janice Moore Fuller (November 23, 1951 – February 25, 2025) was an American poet and playwright, currently Writer-In-Residence and Professor of English at Catawba College, in Salisbury, NC. She is the author of three books of poetry and a number of plays (see bibliography).^[1] Fuller earned her B.A. at Duke University and her M.A. and Ph.D at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.^[2] An outstanding instructor, she was a four-time winner of Catawba's Teacher of the Year Award; she also won the Swink Prize for Outstanding Classroom Teaching.^[3] She was Visiting Professor of English at Harlaxton College (the British campus of the University of Evansville) and a poetry workshop teacher at the Wildacres Writers Workshop.^[4]

Fuller died on February 25, 2025, at age 73.^[5]

Bibliography

Poetry

• On the Bevel. Dorset, UK: Cinnamon P, 2014. ISBN 978-1909077263
• Seance. Knoxville, TN: Iris P, 2007. ISBN 978-0-916078-87-4
• Sex Education. Knoxville, TN: Iris P, 2004. ISBN 0-916078-60-4
• Archeology Is a Destructive Science. Carthage, NC: Scots Plaid P, 1998. ISBN 1-879009-34-X

Plays

• Dix, a full-length play. Produced at the Minneapolis Fringe Festival. August 2004.
• Church of the Spilled Blood, a one-act play. Produced at Bare Bones Theater’s New Play Festival, Charlotte, NC. May 2003.
• The Last Glass-Bottom Boat, a series of three short plays. Produced at Catawba College’s Florence Busby Corriher Theater, March 2003.
• Conjoined, a full-length one-act play. Staged reading at Catawba College’s Florence Busby Corriher Theater, November 2002.