After dropping out of high school at 17, and working for seven years as a poster artist, reporter, steel worker, and machine fitter's apprentice, Robert Moore enrolled in McMaster University and eventually earned a doctorate in English.  While in graduate school, he began working as a teacher, actor, director and playwright (his plays have been performed across Canada).  A professor of English at the University of New Brunswick in Saint John, his poetry has appeared in The Fiddlehead, Wascana Review, Ink Magazine, The New Quarterly, Canadian Author, Prairie Fire, Maisonneuve, Pottersfield Portfolio, The Gaspereau Review, and Quadrant.   His first book of poetry, So Rarely in Our Skins (finalist for both the 6th annual Atlantic Poetry Prize and the Margaret and John Savage First Book Award, and long-listed for the ReLit Award in Poetry), came out in 2002.  His second book, Museum Absconditum (2006), was also long-listed for the ReLit Award in Poetry.  

Robert lives with his partner, Judith Mackin, and their children Alexandra Moore and Robyn Mackin in the south end of the City of Saint John, New Brunswick.