Link to: Personal Website 

Phone:  464-1750

Office:   LA3032

Email:  dmoore2@usi.edu

Don Moore has been teaching composition courses at the university and community college level for over five years and has been involved in education for over ten years running the gambit from substitute teaching, being a project coordinator for the YMCA of Greater St. Louis’ Kid’s Network before and after school programs, working one-on-one with special needs kids and a graduating senior afflicted with Muscular Dystrophy for the Special School District in St. Louis (While Don was working for the Special School District, he also became the Set Master for Marquette High School’s Theatre productions including “Fiddler on the Roof”, “Romeo and Juliette” and “The Foreigner”), teaching conversational English in Takamatsu, Japan, and teaching English to International students for the Intensive English Department at Southeast Missouri State University in Cape Girardeau, MO. 

Don’s professional writing includes having recently finished a workbook on argument published by McGraw-Hill and is being used by the California College of Health Sciences in conjunction with Maimon, Peritz, and Yancey's "A Writer's Resource". He was also instrumental in establishing the writing center at Shawnee Community College's Metropolis Campus, and creating a policies and procedures handbook for Ivy Tech's Southwestern campus in Evansville, IN.  Personally, Don has had poems published in regional magazines including RiverKing Poetry Supplement and Moon Reader.  In 2005 his chapbook of poems Short Story was printed by Gnomic Observer Press.  Don also writes music with friends and can occasionally be seen performing acoustically at Penny Lane Coffee House and Ri-Ra’s Irish Pub.  One of Don’s alter egos “Corduroy Jones” is also the notorious washboard killer for Nashville, Tennessee’s biggest funk mob Jonesworld. 

Outside of work, Don enjoys riding his bicycle, playing tennis, riding his motorcycle, playing music, and hanging out with his dog Boy-the best dog in the world.