Moa is a queer writer from Georgia living in DC with her partner and children. She is an MFA student at American University and writes nonfiction prose and poetry about private violence, gender, race, and family.

Written work

“Deficiency,” The Rumpus, forthcoming March 2025

Interview with Patricia Coral, Southern Review of Books, December 2024

To Protect the Living,” Atticus Review, April 2024

“The One,” The Perch, Yale University, April 2024

Dear Sister Explores Twin Darknesses of Private Violence and Carceral Violence,” Southern Review of Books, February 2024

Recorded,” Sonora Review, December 2023

“The Custody Arrangement,” Pleiades Magazine, Fall 2023

“The Children Would Be Fine,” Pleiades Magazine, Fall 2023

Semifinalist, Kay Murphy Prize for Poetry, Bayou Magazine, 2022-2023

Introduction to “Out of Scale” by Jessica Claire Haney, Grace and Gravity, 2023

Contact

Visual work

moasaic@gmail.com

@moashort

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