Moa is working on a memoir of domestic violence survival in the American South.
She has an MFA in nonfiction from American University. Her writing has been supported by Bread Loaf, Sewanee, and Kenyon. Moa is a queer parent of two elementary-aged kids and works part time at the grocery store.
She is represented by Jenni Ferrari-Adler at Aevitas Creative Management.
Written work
Reporting forthcoming from The Atlantic and The New Republic.
“My Husband Told the Sheriff to Report Me to ICE,” New York Magazine | The Cut, October 2025
“How to Vanish Into Thin Air,” New York Magazine | The Cut, September 2025
“My Big Beautiful Sterilization,” New York Magazine | The Cut, July 2025
“Deficiency,” The Rumpus, March 2025
“I Wanted To Believe He Wouldn’t Hurt Us,” New York Magazine | The Cut, January 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
Visual work