Lisa C. Moore

Lisa C. Moore is an American publisher and editor. From 1997 to 2024, she ran the publisher RedBone Press, which focused on black, LGBTQ authors. Its inaugural title, edited by Moore—Does Your Mama Know? An Anthology of Black Lesbian Coming Out Stories—won two Lambda Literary Awards.

Early life and education Lisa C. Moore was born in New Orleans. Her father is the musician Deacon John Moore, and her family has deep roots in rural Louisiana.

She obtained a degree in business administration from Louisiana State University. Then, in the mid-1990s, she studied journalism at Georgia State University, graduating with a second bachelor's degree. In this period, she worked as a copy editor at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and other publications. Having come out as a lesbian in the 1980s, Moore noticed a lack of writing about black women's coming-out stories. The book featured 49 coming-out stories from 41 writers. The following year, she co-edited Carry the Word: A Bibliography of Black LGBTQ Books. Around 2011, she executive produced and wrote the feature documentary The Untitled Black Lesbian Elder Project.

Moore co-founded and served as board president of the Afro-descendent LGBT writers' organization Fire & Ink. The press wound down its operations in 2024.