--- name: "Liz Moore" canonical: "https://film.one/person/liz-moore" fi1m_id: "liz-moore" imdb_id: "nm5221169" tmdb_id: 2082441 wikidata_id: "Q43325488" roles: ["Producer"] born: "25 May 1983" reviewed_on_fi1m: 1 average_as: "producer" average_over: 0 updated: "2026-10-01T00:43:18.865697+00:00" licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL." --- # Liz Moore ## Identity Liz Moore - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/liz-moore - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** liz-moore - **IMDb ID:** nm5221169 - **TMDB ID:** 2082441 - **Wikidata ID:** Q43325488 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liz_Moore_(author), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q43325488, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5221169/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2082441 Producer. Born 25 May 1983 in Boston. ## Details - **Work:** Producer - **Born:** 25 May 1983, Boston - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liz_Moore_(author), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q43325488, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5221169/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2082441 ## Streaming the US now - **Peacock:** [*Long Bright River*](https://film.one/tv/long-bright-river.md) (58) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Fi1m on Liz Moore > Liz Moore has come to television once and brought what she brings to the page: a few blocks of a city, two sisters, and a murder plot she cares about less than we are meant to. The sisters travelled well. The plot did not. The first thing *Long Bright River* (2025) wants you to look at is not a body but a street. Kensington, in the series as in the novel it comes from, is a neighbourhood where the women being killed had already been lost, to drugs and to the people who should have noticed. Moore has said that place is a huge inspiration for her, and the series bears that out: it is at its best when nobody is detecting anything and it simply stays with the two sisters and the few blocks around them. Moore is a novelist first and, so far, a television writer once. She began with *The Words of Every Song* (2007), interconnected stories drawn from her time as a musician in New York, then moved to Philadelphia and wrote *Heft* (2012) and *The Unseen World* (2016). *Long Bright River* (2020), her fourth book, was the breakthrough, and *The God of the Woods* (2024) followed it. The habit across all of them is the same: a family story, often about sisters, with a mystery threaded through it and the timeline or the point of view switching as it goes. Secrets, addiction, class and the particular place where people live are what the books are about. The crimes are how they get there. On screen, with Nikki Toscano as co-creator and showrunner, that habit cuts both ways. Amanda Seyfried and Ashleigh Cummings play the sisters, and the scenes between them have a plainness and a sorrow that stayed with us for days; two people who know each other too well to lie and cannot stop trying. Then the series remembers it is a murder mystery, and it slows to a walk and stays there for the better part of eight episodes. Readers of her books have noticed something similar, that the explaining and the procedure can drag against the people. On television, where there is nowhere to hide an explanatory passage, the drag shows more. Moore said of the adaptation, "I was excited to make changes from the book." We believe her, and we wish more of the changes had been cuts. We scored the series a 58, and that is where we would leave her screen work for now: a decent, sorrowful piece of television with a long investigation wrapped around it. She still runs a writing programme at Temple University and still writes novels, and she is good at them. If television wants her again, it should ask for the neighbourhood and not the case. ## Biography Liz Moore is an American novelist, screenwriter and producer. She is Professor of English at Temple University, where she directs the MFA programme in Creative Writing. Moore is the author of five novels, including the New York Times bestseller *Long Bright River* (2020). She co-created the 2025 Peacock miniseries adaptation of the novel with Nikki Toscano, serving as executive producer and co-writer. Her other novels include *Heft* (2012), *The Unseen World* (2016) and *The God of the Woods* (2024). She received the Rome Prize in Literature in 2014. *Sources: liberalarts.temple.edu, en.wikipedia.org, lizmoore.net.* ## On Fi1m (1) - *Long Bright River* (2025), Fi1m 58, Creator, Writer, Executive Producer, Book — [page](https://film.one/tv/long-bright-river.md) ## Complete filmography (3) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *Long Bright River* (2025), series, Book, Executive Producer, Writer, Creator — Fi1m 58, [page](https://film.one/tv/long-bright-river.md) - *The God of the Woods*, series, Novel, Executive Producer, Creator - *Heft*, Novel ## Gallery - ![Liz Moore](https://film.one/media/person/4142785/gallery-1b36d0d43511.jpg) Liz Moore — Rosiestep, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/34/Liz_Moore_at_National_Book_Festival_2025.jpg/1280px-Liz_Moore_at_National_Book_Festival_2025.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Liz Moore speaking about her book The God of the Woods (2024)](https://film.one/media/person/4142785/gallery-5f2e24ffb8ac.jpg) Liz Moore speaking about her book The God of the Woods (2024) — William He, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cf/Liz_Moore_02_%28cropped%29.jpg/1280px-Liz_Moore_02_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Liz Moore speaking about her book The God of the Woods (2024)](https://film.one/media/person/4142785/gallery-f645dca08a29.jpg) Liz Moore speaking about her book The God of the Woods (2024) — William He, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/17/Liz_Moore_01.jpg/1280px-Liz_Moore_01.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Liz Moore speaking about her book The God of the Woods (2024)](https://film.one/media/person/4142785/gallery-86fd8e00e099.jpg) Liz Moore speaking about her book The God of the Woods (2024) — William He, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/Liz_Moore_02.jpg/1280px-Liz_Moore_02.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) ## Awards ### Other awards — 1 won, 1 nominated - Athenaeum Literary Award 2025: Athenaeum Literary Award (nominated), for *The God of the Woods* - Athenaeum Literary Award 2012: Athenaeum Literary Award (won), for *Heft* *From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.* --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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