About Hana

Hana Moore writes surreal literary fiction about grief, forgiveness, and the stubborn pull of wonder.

Named for Hāna, Hawaii, she began her first novel, The Way, after the 2014 shooting at FSU's Strozier Library, when her sister was on campus headed for the library and a friend of hers was shot in the back. A John Wycliffe book in his backpack saved his life. Three years later, after the Las Vegas shooting, the church she grew up in held a vigil that thousands attended. Both events shaped The Way, the story of a young man who promises his dying father to forgive his family's killer.

She is now writing Poe and Me: The Great Escape, a coming of age literary fiction about a young writer and the ghost of Edgar Allan Poe based in the heart of Charlottesville, VA.