Photo: Timothy Greenfield-Sanders Follow DAVID BARCLAY MOORE online at DavidBarclayMoore.com, on Twitter at @dbarclaymoore and on Instagram at dbarclaymoore. David is a Coretta Scott King / John Steptoe Award-winning author whose first novel, The Stars Beneath Our Feet, is being made into a film. His other books include Carrimebac and Holler of the Fireflies. Wanna know more? Writer, filmmaker, super geek, cherry cobbler gobbler. Knows the Death Star plans backward and forward. Adores Mark Twain, Haruki Murakami and old Prince songs. Loves the ocean. Sincerely wants to fly. David is constantly trying to see the world differently. He was born and raised in Missouri where he read too many novels and comic books as a child. After studying creative writing at Iowa State University, film at Howard University in Washington, D.C., and language studies at l’Université de Montpellier in France, David moved to New York City, where he has served as technical producer for Sony StudiOne, freelancer for Associated Press and communications coordinator for Harlem Children’s Zone. David has received grants from the Ford Foundation, the Jerome Foundation, Yaddo, and the Wellspring Foundation. He was also a semi-finalist for the Sundance Screenwriters Lab. He now lives, works and eats Twizzlers in Brooklyn.