We need more women’s voices to be heard. There is nothing more empowering than backing yourself.
Tara Rae Moss is a keynote speaker, award-winning advocate, bestselling author of 14 books of fiction and non-fiction, and a holistic practitioner.
Since 1999 Tara Rae has written 14 bestselling books under the name Tara Moss, published in 19 countries and 13 languages, including advocacy handbook for women and girls Speaking Out, her #1 non-fiction bestselling memoir The Fictional Woman, and the internationally bestselling postwar historical crime novels The War Widow and The Ghosts of Paris featuring PI Billie Walker and her disabled war vet assistant Samuel Baker. The War Widow by Tara Moss launches in the UK for the first time in March, 2024 with Verve Books.
Her most recent short stories are The Husband Machine, published in Black Is The Night, a tribute to noir master Cornell Woolrich, and The Immortality Project, a ‘poignant work of speculative fiction’ published in Meanjin Quarterly, and her recent writing appears in Ms Magazine, CrimeReads and The Age. An experienced documentary host and interviewer with a passion for research and human stories, Moss hosted the true crime documentary series Tough Nuts – Australia’s Hardest Criminals for two seasons the Crime & Investigation Network and Amazon Prime, Tara Moss Investigates on the National Geographic Channel and the author interview show Tara in Conversation on 13th Street Universal. She was also the host, co-executive producer and co-writer of Cyberhate with Tara Moss on Australia’s ABC, examining the phenomenon of online abuse, and most recently a reporter and host of the true crime podcast, The Man in The Balaclava, for Audible.
She is an outspoken advocate for human rights and the rights of women and children, and this focus informs all of her work. She has been a UNICEF Australia Goodwill Ambassador since 2007 and 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 2018 she was named one of the Global Top 50 Diversity Figures in Public Life, along with Angelina Jolie, His Holiness The Dalai Lama and more.
Tara Rae lives with Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS) – a rare disease marked by constant burning pain which rates on the McGill Pain Scale as more painful than childbirth or amputation of a digit. Despite being told by multiple doctors that she would never recover, she was able to get her condition into complete remission in 2023 after nearly 8 years of debilitating pain that impacted all aspects of her being, including her mobility, causing her to require a wheelchair. Now healed, she brings a strong message of hope and possibility, and advocates for the need to improve treatment and support, and integrate multidisciplinary care and complementary therapies to treat the whole person. Her advocacy has had significant impact – In 2020 she accepted the honorary role of Pain Champion with Pain Australia and in 2021 she was chosen as a Global Change Maker by Conscious Being magazine for her disability and chronic pain activism. She is a 2022 recipient of the Honorary Citizen Award for the City of Victoria for her work on accessibility rights. In 2023 she was the Canadian Pain Society‘s first ever Pain Champion, and spoke at their annual scientific meeting in Banff, in front of over 500 luminaries in pain research and treatment.
Tara Rae – or Rae, as she is also known – is a mother, a wife and a dual Canadian/Australian citizen, and currently resides in her hometown of Victoria, BC, the unceded territory of the Lkwungen speaking people, and the Songhees, Esquimalt, and WSÁNEC First Nations, where she is a recipient of both the Order of Lambrick Park, and the Honorary Citizen Award, the highest formal honour awarded by the City of Victoria. She works as an author, advocate, public speaker and healer, as a certified Holistic practitioner, Reiki Practitioner, Shamanic Practitioner, and Funeral Celebrant, supporting her local community.
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Walk the Talk with Tara Moss | John Fluevog Spring/Summer '23
"Every body is different and everybody matters." Tara Moss, author and disability advocate, embodies exactly what it means to Walk the Talk.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".
