Tara Moss is a best-selling author of 13 books of fiction and
non-fiction, published in 19 countries and 13 languages, a
documentary host and award-winning human rights advocate. Her
latest novel is the internationally bestselling historical thriller
The War Widow, set in 1946 and featuring 'staunchly feminist,
champagne-swilling, fast-driving Nazi hunter investigator' PI
Billie Walker.
Moss is an outspoken advocate for the rights of women and children,
and people with disabilities. She has been a UNICEF Goodwill
Ambassador since 2007 and as of 2013 is UNICEF Australia's National
Ambassador for Child Survival. In 2014 she was recognised for
Outstanding Advocacy for her blog Manus Island: An insider's
report, which helped to break information to the public about the
alleged murder of Reza Barati inside the Australian-run Manus
Island Immigration Detention Centre. In 2015 she received an Edna
Ryan Award for her significant contribution to feminist debate,
speaking out for women and children and inspiring others to
challenge the status quo, and 2017 was recognised as one of the
Global Top 50 Diversity Figures in Public Life, for using her
position in public life to make a positive impact in diversity,
alongside Malala Yousufzai, Angelina Jolie, His Holiness the
Fourteenth Dalai Lama of Tibet and more. In the media and through
her social media page Tara and Wolfie, she brings advocacy and
visibility to issues of disability and chronic pain, and the need
to normalize mobility aids.
Her in-depth novel research has seen her acquire her PI
credentials, tour the FBI Academy at Quantico, spend time in squad
cars, morgues, prisons, the Hare Psychopathy Lab, the Supreme Court
and criminology conferences, take polygraph tests, shoot weapons,
conduct surveillance, pass the Firearms Training Simulator (FATSII)
with the LAPD, pull 4.2 G's doing loops over the Sydney Opera House
flying with the RAAF, and acquire her CAMS race driver licence. She
has hosted the true crime documentary series Tough Nuts -
Australia's Hardest Criminals on the Crime & Investigation Network,
'Tara Moss Investigates' on the National Geographic Channel, the
author interview show Tara in Conversation on 13th Street Universal
and write and host the documentary Cyberhate, about online
abuse.
Moss is a dual Australian/Canadian citizen, and divides her time
between NSW and Vancouver with her husband and daughter. Visit her
at taramoss.com
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