Tara Moss is an internationally acclaimed author, media host and human rights advocate, passionately speaking up for the rights of women, children and people with disability.
Having published 14 best-selling books since 1999 in 19 countries and 13 languages, Tara Moss is internationally renowned for her significant contribution to the feminist debate.
In 2017 she was named one of the Top 50 Diversity Figures in Public Life, globally.
Over 20 years of experience in the public eye, speaking at hundreds of universities, schools, writer’s festivals, town halls, community and corporate events and more.
Seven years ago, Tara suffered a life-altering hip injury that led to chronic pain and diagnosis of Complex Regional Pain Syndrome. Severe pain changed every aspect of her physical, professional, social and economic life. With lived experience of an often severe and disabling pain condition, she has faced great challenges but also found a deep well of strength, resilience, and insight.
She has over twenty years’ experience as a human rights advocate and is now the Canadian Pain Society’s first ever Pain Champion, and Pain Champion for Pain Australia, as well as continuing her human rights advocacy as a UNICEF Ambassador. Tara is continuing her own healing journey and finding ways to both survive and thrive.
Previous experience
Author: Since 1999 she has written 10 bestselling books, published in 19 countries and 13 languages, including the acclaimed Mak Vanderwall crime fiction series and the Pandora English series. Her first non-fiction book, the critically acclaimed The Fictional Woman, was published in 2014 and became a number one national non-fiction bestseller, and her iconic cover design, featuring her face labeled with fictions' or stereotypes about women won Best Non-Fiction Book Design at the Australia Book Design Awards in 2015 with HarperCollins Publishers. She is a PhD Candidate at the University of Sydney, and has earned her private investigator credentials (Cert III) from the Australian Security Academy.
Her in-depth novel research has seen her 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 and the author interview show Tara in Conversation on 13th Street Universal.
Advocacy: 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 events surrounding the alleged murder of Reza Barati inside the Australian-run Manus Island Immigration Detention Centre.
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Tara Moss on losing her mother and her start in modelling | Anh's Brush With Fame
Tara Moss opens up about losing her mother to cancer and how her passing pushed Tara to pursue modelling seriously.Tara Moss has it all - brains, beauty, and a best-selling thriller...Fetish is a debut novel with kick, from an author who happens to be a supermodel herself, as well as an accomplished, awa ... keep reading HarperCollins Canada
As a successful model and author, Tara Moss breaks the mould of both professions.
[Tara,] Your skills as a speaker are outstanding, and the message you gave was one that should be heard by school students across the state.
Hardly a blonde joke or a vacuous modelling stereotype, [Tara Moss] is savvy, articulate and...a darn good writer.
I think it is important to have a personality like Tara on B&B [panel show Beauty and the Beast], a show a lot of Australians watch, and are influenced by. Maybe a voice like Tara's could open some eyes.
We've done three hundred and one shows and that's the first time I've been topped, I can tell you.
Tara Moss is much more than a pretty face. She's an international best-selling author, ambassador, television host, and reptile-wrangler... she may well become one of the world's best-sellers.
Tara was wonderful. A delight to deal with and extremely accommodating, especially signing a huge number of her books that members of the audience wanted autographed. She was genuine in her praise of the Karralyka Centre facility and the surrounds and more than happy to pose for photos. Her story and DVD presentation has earned her high praise on our feedback survey including "Tara Moss was entertaining, intriguing and though provoking".
