Els Moors

Els Moors (Poperinge, 1976) is a Flemish poet and novelist and lives in Brussels. Her poetry debut Er hangt een hoge lucht boven ons /There is a tall sky above us; 2006/ was nominated for the prestigious C. Buddingh’ prize and was awarded the Herman de Coninck prize for best poetry debut. Her second collection of poetry, Liederen van een kapseizend paard /Songs of a capsizing horse/, was published in 2013, won the J.C. Bloem prize and has been translated in German and French. Moors works as a teacher of Creative Writing in Belgium and the Netherlands and was also an editor for the literary Magazine nY. From 2018 till 2020, she has been nominated as the National Poet of Belgium.