by LIT Nonfiction Editors, Vicky Oliver and Sarah Persons

LIT nonfiction editors Vicky Oliver and Sarah Persons recently sat down with distinguished memoirist, playwright, and poet Honor Moore to discuss her new memoir, A Termination (August 2024, A Public Space). The memoir details the author’s reckoning with an abortion she had in 1969—four years before Roe v. Wade—and is told in a fragmented, poetic style. A Termination has drawn rave reviews from the New York Times and Kirkus Reviews, among others.

Vicky and Sarah first met in Honor’s “The Uses of Memory” class in the MFA program at the New School during 2022 when Honor was first drafting A Termination.