AJ Moore

AJ Moore (a pseudonym) is a writer, poet, and the author of The Undoing of My Marriage, a prose-poetry hybrid autofiction novel based on her real experiences. Her work explores desire, identity, motherhood, and modern relationships. She lives in New Zealand with her daughter, whom she co-parents 50/50.

Moore began writing poetry during the COVID-19 pandemic, sharing it on an anonymous Instagram account as a way to give voice to the restless, unsettled thoughts and emotions she felt unable to express within her marriage or as a mother.

As she pursued fulfilment through an experiment with ethical non-monogamy, her poetry expanded, eventually tracing the unravelling of the marriage itself.

In her debut, written a few years later, Moore interwove those poems with prose narrated through the perspective of her earlier self, as the events unfolded, to offer an unflinching and honest account of desire, identity, and the slow dissolution of a life that no longer fits.

Her companion novella, Not a Fairytale Ending: The Rewriting of My Story, written soon after she completed The Undoing of My Marriage, follows the writing and rewriting of that book as she navigated a physically intense yet emotionally volatile casual relationship she couldn’t quite let go of. With the same candour as her debut, it explores the addictive pull of inconsistent intimacy, the erosion of self within imbalanced connections, and what starting over after divorce really means.

Moore also shares poems and personal essays at ajmoorewriting.com.