Barbara Robinette Moss received an MFA from Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa, and a BFA from Ringling School of Art & Design, Sarasota, Florida. She has participated in over one hundred juried art exhibitions, including the Los Angeles Printmaking Society Contemporary American Printmakers and the Museum of American Art Drawing Midwest. She began writing while in graduate school at Drake University. She lives in New York City and Iowa City, Iowa.
In 1996, Barbara won the gold medal for personal essay in the William Faulkner Creative Writing Competition, sponsored by The Pirate’s Alley Faulkner Society, New Orleans, Louisiana. The winning story, “Near the Center of the Earth,” became the first chapter for her memoir, Change Me into Zeus’s Daughter, published by Scribner. After publication, Barbara won the 2002 Alabama Author Award for Nonfiction, sponsored by the Alabama Library Association, and the Iowa Authors Award 2000, sponsored by the Library Association of Des Moines Foundation.
Change Me into Zeus’s Daughter has been reviewed by many newspapers, including The New York Times Book Review, The London Daily Telegraph, The Chicago Tribune, Atlanta Journal & Constitution, Birmingham News, The Des Moines Register, The Times Picayune, and USA Today. Articles have appeared in People Magazine, Elle, Allure, BiBA, a French magazine and Biography Magazine. Barbara has been a guest on All Things Considered, Jackie Lyden, The Gary Robertson Show, BBC Radio Scotland, The David Rothenburg Show, WBAI Radio New York, and many others.
Scribner is also publishing Barbara’s next book, fierce, to be released in October 2004.
Courtesy of Barbara Robinette Moss Official Site.