Wesley Moore III

A native South Carolinian, Wesley Moore III taught English at Porter-Gaud School in Charleston for 34 years before his retirement in 2019. He has published in literary magazines, won several writing awards, and has had a short story and poem anthologized.

In addition, he is a pictorial artist who specializes in narrative photo collage.

Wesley lives with his wife Caroline and stepdaughter Brooks on Folly Beach, South Carolina, the Edge of America. You can check out more of his writing and some of his art on his blog, You Do Hoodoo? (wlm3.com).

Praise for Wesley Moore III

"To discover Wesley Moore’s writing is to enter an arresting world where the truly literary is in constant conversation with the earthy & gritty. Moore captures life in its multitudes."

—Joanna Hershon, author of—most recently—St. Ivo

"By turns rowdy and tender, irreverent and gracious, Moore’s dispatches from the madcap human carnival never fail to engage and enlighten. He is not just a writer’s writer, but a carpenter’s writer, a bartender’s writer, a musician’s writer."

—Charlie Geer, author of Outbound

"Just as James Joyce’s Ulysses reimagined Homer’s Odyssey for twentieth-century adults, Wesley Moore’s Today, Oh Boy reimagines Ulysses for twenty-first-century young adults in a carefully crafted novel portraying the peregrinations of a host of protagonists, mostly high school students, during a single school day in Summerville, an idyllic small town in the Lowcountry of South Carolina. Once this great chase began, I couldn't put it down."

–Eugene Platt, author of – most recently – Weaned on War