Tara Moss
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Tara Moss (born 2 October 1973) is a Canadian-Australian author, television presenter, journalist, former model and UNICEF national ambassador for child survival.
Moss was born to parents of Dutch descent – her grandparents had escaped from Nazi-occupied Holland – in Victoria, British Columbia, where she also attended school. Moss's mother Janni died of multiple myeloma in 1990 at age 43. Her mother was one of the first 100 patients in the world to be treated for the cancer with a bone marrow transplant. The main character in Moss's crime series, Mak Vanderwall, lost her mother to the same form of cancer.
Moss began modelling at age 14, with frequent trips to Europe from the age of 16, but did not stay long in the profession. At age 21, as detailed in The Fictional Woman (2014), she was raped in Vancouver by a known assailant, a Canadian actor. She recounts that she received little support. He was eventually charged with raping about a dozen women but was only convicted for another rape because his friends testified against him, then jailed for two years.
After marriages to the Canadian Martin Legge and to the Australian actor Mark Pennell, she married Australian poet and philosopher Dr Berndt Sellheim, grandson of German-Australian artist Gert Sellheim in 2009. Moss gave birth to a daughter, Sapphira, on 22 February 2011. She lives in New South Wales.
Moss is a UNICEF Ambassador for Child Survival, a Goodwill Ambassador, and UNICEF Australia Patron for Breastfeeding for the Baby Friendly Heath Initiative (BFHI)). Since 2000 she has been an ambassador for the Royal Institute for Deaf and Blind Children. She is currently (2014) a PhD candidate at the Department of gender and cultural studies at the University of Sydney.
Moss's chief professions are novelist, TV presenter and journalist. Her books are published in 18 countries in 12 languages and include the internationally best-selling and critically acclaimed series of six crime novels featuring a feminist heroine, Makedde 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.'
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