Born and raised in Memphis, Tennessee, Marquavious Moore is a poet, educator, and organizer redefining what poetic justice feels like, sounds like, looks like. With roots in the Black church, his work acts as a PSA in spoken word form, giving new meaning to radical resistance and radical joy. A graduate of Columbia University with a B.A. in Psychology and a concentration in African American and African Diaspora Studies, Moore creates at the intersection where academia meets the hood at the altar, pulling from cognitive neuroscience, lived experience, and the rituals of survival that shaped him.

As a poet, Moore has claimed multiple Poetry Out Loud championships at the city and state levels and was named a National Finalist in 2017. His commitment to the craft earned him the Martha's Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing (MVICW) Poet & Author Fellowship in 2024. Likened to artists like Gil Scott-Heron and Lauryn Hill, he is the author of Summons: poems + photos (2023) and Rosewood Ave.: an epic-editorial on love and loss (2023). He has also produced and directed short films including No Love Lost and Voice Notes from a Loving Grandma (2022).

Moore's work as an educator spans kindergarten classrooms with the Los Angeles Unified School District and arts-centered workshops, where he facilitates programming that integrates creative expression with social justice education. His teaching philosophy centers on critical thinking and creating spaces for young people to imagine new worlds.

His work at Columbia's Institute for Research in African American Studies included examining the systemic impacts of policing, mass incarceration, and public disinvestment in arts and education, as well as research in behavioral and cultural neuroscience. This background shapes how and why his work reads as both art and intervention.

Through poetry, film, teaching, and organizing, Marquavious Moore creates work that refuses to flatten the complexity of Black life, and that insists on our right to joy even in the midst of struggle.