Moore Bowen is the pen name under which the Maine poet Alice Bolstridge (born 1938 in Portage Lake, Maine) writes fiction. Both names are public: the Library of Congress Name Authority File records the pen name as Bowen, Moore, 1938-, citing her JEF novel as the documenting work. Bolstridge is a retired English teacher who lives in Presque Isle, in Aroostook County at the northern edge of the state.

She came to academia in her mid-thirties, after raising children, and earned a B.S. in Education from the University of Maine at Presque Isle (1970), an M.A. in English from the University of Maine, Orono (1982), and a Ph.D. in English Literature from Oklahoma State University (1987). She taught for more than four decades, from Ashland and Millinocket elementary schools to the University of Cincinnati and, until her 2012 retirement, the Maine School of Science and Mathematics in Limestone.

Under her own name she has published more than 100 poems, stories, and essays, and two poetry chapbooks: Letters to a Lover (Gold Wake Press, 2009) and Chance & Choice (Finishing Line Press, 2017). She won the Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance Poetry Competition in 2005 and 2011 and was named Maine Senior College Network Poet Laureate for 2013.

As Moore Bowen she won the 2013 Kenneth Patchen Award for Experimental Fiction for Oppression for the Heaven of It, a dialogue-driven docu-fiction novel about a young man named Moonway and his mother. The book grows out of Bolstridge's experience as the mother of the artist Alan Mountain (1956-2015), who lived his adult life with paranoid schizophrenia; proceeds are donated to the Foundation for Excellence in Mental Health Care. It is her single title on the JEF list and one of the press's Kenneth Patchen Award winners.

Start with Oppression for the Heaven of It, the Patchen-winning novel that is her fiction in full.