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Barbara Robinette Moss

In 1996, Barbara Robinette Moss won the gold medal for personal essay in the William Faulkner Creative Writing Competition. The winning story, “Near the Center of the Earth,” became the first chapter for her memoir, Change Me into Zeus’s Daughter (Scribner 2000), which went on to become a national bestseller. After publication, Moss won the Iowa Author Award (2000), and the 2002 Alabama Author Award for Nonfiction.

Her nonfiction has been published in two anthologies, Bloom & Blossom, and Stories from the Blue Moon Café. Her work has also appeared in Allure Magazine. Moss has been a guest on All Things Considered, NPR's Jackie Lyden, The Gary Robertson Show, BBC Radio Scotland, The David Rothenburg Show, The Diane Rehm Show, WBAI Radio New York, and many others. Zeus’s Daughter has been translated into Chinese and Taiwanese.

Moss’s second book, fierce (Scribner 2004), has been widely reviewed and was an ELLE magazine pick.

Though Moss is presently living in Kansas City, Missouri, she grew up in Alabama and considers it home. Consequently, her writing is rooted in the Deep South.

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