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Thursday 30 May
7:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Tara Moss is famous for her kickass crime-fighting creations. First came model turned forensic psychologist Mak Vanderwall – and her latest is the supernaturally gifted Pandora English, a fashion assistant who moonlights to battle sinister forces. Sexy, smart and always in control, these heroines – and their proudly feminist creator – have lured legions of readers.
Tara will be in conversation with Melbourne-based writer and reviewer, Angela Meyer.
Featuring
Tara Moss
Tara Moss is a novelist, TV presenter, journalist and former model. Since 1999 she has written and published nine bestselling novels and been published in 18 countries in 12 languages. Her non-fiction writing has appeared in numerous publications, including SMH News Review, the Age, Australian Literary Review and the Australian.
She has earned her private investigator credentials (Cert III) from the Australian Security Academy and is currently undertaking a Doctorate of Social Sciences at the University of Sydney.
Moss is an outspoken advocate for the rights of women and children. She has been an ambassador for the Royal Institute for Deaf and Blind Children since 2000, a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador since 2007 and UNICEF Patron for Breastfeeding for the Baby Friendly Heath Initiative (BFHI) since 2011, advocating for better support for breastfeeding mothers in hospital, the workforce and general community.
She is a dual Australian/Canadian citizen and has lived in Australia since 1996. She was listed as one of the 20 Most Influential Female Voices in Australia in 2012 by the Sydney Morning Herald’s Daily Life, and one of Australia’s Most Inspiring Women by Women’s Health magazine in 2013.
Angela Meyer
Angela Meyer is an award-winning Australian writer and editor. Her debut novel, A Superior Spectre, was shortlisted for an Aurealis Award, the MUD Literary Prize, an Australian Book Industry Award, the Readings Prize for New Australian Writing and a Saltire Literary Society Award (Scotland). She is also the author of a novella, Joan Smokes, which won the inaugural Mslexia Novella Award (UK), and a book of flash fiction, Captives.
Angela's second novel, Moon Sugar, will be released in October 2022. Her work has been widely published in magazines, journals and newspapers, including Island, The Big Issue, Best Australian Stories and Kill Your Darlings. She has worked in bookstores, as a book reviewer, in a whisky bar, and as a commissioning editor and publisher. She now works as a freelance editor and consultant. Angela grew up in Northern NSW and lives in Melbourne.