AJ Moore

AJ Moore (a pseudonym) is a New Zealand-based writer, poet and mother of one. Her work draws on lived experience to offer an honest perspective on modern relationships, motherhood, divorce, desire and identity.

Moore began writing poetry during the COVID-19 pandemic, initially sharing her work anonymously online. Through this process, she articulated conflicted and unsettled thoughts she felt unable to voice as a married woman and mother of a young child.

As Moore pursued fulfilment through an experiment with ethical non-monogamy, her poetry collection continued to expand, eventually tracing the unravelling of her marriage.

These poems interweave the chapters of The Undoing of My Marriage, Moore’s debut autofiction novel. Although written a few years after her marriage ended, Moore narrates the book through the unfiltered perspective of her past self in the present tense, depicting events as they occurred, without foreshadowing or hindsight.

Moore shares reviews, poems and personal essays at ajmoorewriting.com, where readers can also find her short ebook Not a Fairytale Ending: The Rewriting of My Story, a companion novella to The Undoing of My Marriage.