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Tara Moss
Tara Rae Moss (born 2 October 1973) is a Canadian-Australian author, documentary maker and presenter, journalist and UNICEF national ambassador for child survival and former model.
Moss was born in Victoria, British Columbia, where she attended school. Moss's mother Janni died of multiple myeloma in 1990 at age 43.
Moss began modelling at age 14, but did not stay long in the profession. At age 21, as detailed in her 2014 memoir The Fictional Woman, she was raped in Vancouver by a known assailant, a Canadian actor.
After brief marriages to the Canadian Marty Legg and to the Australian actor Mark Pennell both ended in divorce, she married Australian poet and philosopher Dr. Berndt Sellheim. Moss gave birth to a daughter, Sapphira, on 22 February 2011. In early 2024 the marriage ended.
Moss is a UNICEF Ambassador for Child Survival, and has been a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador since 2007. Since 2000 she has been an ambassador for the Royal Institute for Deaf and Blind Children.
Moss has private investigator credentials (Cert III) from the Australian Security Academy and as of 2019[update] is undertaking a Doctorate of Social Sciences in the Department of Gender and Cultural studies at the University of Sydney.
Moss's books are published in 18 countries in 13 languages and include the internationally best-selling and critically acclaimed series of six crime novels featuring a feminist heroine, Makedde "Mak" Vanderwall: Fetish, Split, Covet, Hit, Siren and Assassin. Her first non-fiction book, The Fictional Woman was published in June 2014, became a #1 bestselling non-fiction book, and is listed by The Sydney Morning Herald as a "must-read". The book has received critical acclaim, with Dr Clare Wright writing, 'Moss is a serious thinker.'
Her writing has appeared in Ms Magazine, Crime Reads, the Australian Literary Review, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Sun-Herald, The Daily Telegraph, TheHoopla and more.
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Tara Moss
Tara Rae Moss (born 2 October 1973) is a Canadian-Australian author, documentary maker and presenter, journalist and UNICEF national ambassador for child survival and former model.
Moss was born in Victoria, British Columbia, where she attended school. Moss's mother Janni died of multiple myeloma in 1990 at age 43.
Moss began modelling at age 14, but did not stay long in the profession. At age 21, as detailed in her 2014 memoir The Fictional Woman, she was raped in Vancouver by a known assailant, a Canadian actor.
After brief marriages to the Canadian Marty Legg and to the Australian actor Mark Pennell both ended in divorce, she married Australian poet and philosopher Dr. Berndt Sellheim. Moss gave birth to a daughter, Sapphira, on 22 February 2011. In early 2024 the marriage ended.
Moss is a UNICEF Ambassador for Child Survival, and has been a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador since 2007. Since 2000 she has been an ambassador for the Royal Institute for Deaf and Blind Children.
Moss has private investigator credentials (Cert III) from the Australian Security Academy and as of 2019[update] is undertaking a Doctorate of Social Sciences in the Department of Gender and Cultural studies at the University of Sydney.
Moss's books are published in 18 countries in 13 languages and include the internationally best-selling and critically acclaimed series of six crime novels featuring a feminist heroine, Makedde "Mak" Vanderwall: Fetish, Split, Covet, Hit, Siren and Assassin. Her first non-fiction book, The Fictional Woman was published in June 2014, became a #1 bestselling non-fiction book, and is listed by The Sydney Morning Herald as a "must-read". The book has received critical acclaim, with Dr Clare Wright writing, 'Moss is a serious thinker.'
Her writing has appeared in Ms Magazine, Crime Reads, the Australian Literary Review, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Sun-Herald, The Daily Telegraph, TheHoopla and more.
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