Our Timeless Tuesday Feature Is The Beautiful Author Tara Moss

Here’s a Timeless Tuesday feature a good number of you (especially from the north) are familiar with. Tara Moss, ladies and gentlemen possesses a timeless beauty that can probably surpass the coming apocalypse. Exaggeration? You be the judge after the gallery.

Even at 51 years of age, this woman can turn heads and cause road accidents. She looks like a queen and if you dress her up Mad Max style, she would even be more gorgeous. Like insanely.

Who is Tara Moss?

Tara is a Canadian-Australian writer, documentary filmmaker presenter, journalist, and UNICEF national child survival ambassador. She is best known for Covet (2004), Assassin (2012), Hit (2006), and several other crime novels featuring the protagonist Makedde Vanderwall, as well as her bestseller memoir The Fictional Woman (2014).

Tara Moss was born in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, to a Dutch family. She then moved to Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

Career Start

Tara began modeling at the age of 14 but did not stay long in the industry. According to her 2014 memoir The Fictional Woman, she was raped in Vancouver by a known assailant, a Canadian actor, when she was 21 years old.

As an Author

Tara Moss has written 13 bestselling books that have been published in 19 countries and 13 languages since 1999. Her most recent work, the internationally bestselling historical crime novel The War Widow, published with HarperCanada and HarperCollins Australia, was released in May 2020 with Dutton Books at Penguin Randomhouse US and translated into German by Aufbau in January 2021 as Die Jägerin.

Her first non-fiction book, the critically acclaimed The Fictional Woman, became a number one national non-fiction bestseller in 2014, and her iconic cover design, featuring her face labeled with ‘fiction’ or stereotypes about women, won Best Non-Fiction Book Design in 2015. An experienced documentary host and interviewer with a passion for research and human stories, Tara has hosted the true crime documentary series Tough Nuts – Australia’s Hardest Criminals on the Crime. She was also the host, co-executive producer, and co-writer of Cyberhate with Tara Moss on Australia’s ABC, which investigated the phenomenon of online abuse, and she delivered her address to the nation, ‘Cyberhate and Beyond’, at the National Press Club in 2017, bringing the phenomenon of extreme online abuse and harassment to the national agenda.

Tara’s books are published in 18 countries in 13 languages, including the internationally best-selling and critically acclaimed series of six crime novels featuring a feminist heroine, Makedde “Mak” Vanderwall: Fetish, Split, Covet, Hit, Siren, and Assassin. Her first non-fiction book, The Fictional Woman, was published in June 2014, became a #1 bestselling non-fiction book, and was named a “must-read” by The Sydney Morning Herald. The book has received critical acclaim, with Dr Clare Wright writing, ‘Moss is a serious thinker.’

Her work has been published in Ms Magazine, Crime Reads, the Australian Literary Review, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Sun-Herald, The Daily Telegraph, TheHoopla, and others.

Tara Moss’ Advocacies

Tara Moss is an outspoken advocate for human rights and the rights of women, children, and people with disabilities. She has been a UNICEF Australia Goodwill Ambassador since 2007 and UNICEF Australia’s National Ambassador for Child Survival since 2013. In her UNICEF role, she has visited Australian hospitals, maternity wards, refuges, schools, and Syrian refugee camps. In 2014, she received the Outstanding Advocacy Award for her blog Manus Island: An Insider’s Report, which contributed to raising awareness of Reza Barati’s suspected murder within the Australian-run Manus Island Immigration Detention Centre.

Tara and Wolfie raise awareness and advocacy for disability and chronic pain issues, as well as the need for mainstream mobility aids, in the media and on her Facebook page. Moss received the Edna Ryan Award in 2015 for her significant contribution to the feminist debate, speaking out for women and children and inspiring others to challenge the status quo, in 2017 she was named one of the Global Top 50 Diversity Figures in Public Life, alongside Malala Yousufzai, Angelina Jolie, His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama of Tibet, and others.

Facts and Trivia

Tara is a dual Australian and Canadian citizen. Following marriages to Canadian Marty Legg and Australian actor Mark Pennell, she married Dr. Berndt Sellheim, an Australian poet and philosopher. Tara gave birth to a girl named Sapphira on February 22, 2011. The marriage terminated in early 2024.

Tara Moss hosted and served as executive producer and writer for Cyberhate with Tara Moss on ABC in 2017, as well as two seasons of the real crime television series Tough Nuts – Australia’s Hardest Criminals on the Crime & Investigation Network and Tara Moss in Conversation on the 13th Street Channel. She has also hosted the National Geographic Channel’s crime documentary series Tara Moss Investigates.

Her extensive novel research has led her to tour the FBI Academy at Quantico, spend time in squad cars, morgues, prisons, the Hare Psychopathy Lab, the Supreme Court, and criminology conferences, take polygraph tests, shoot weapons, conduct surveillance, pass the Firearms Training Simulator (FATSII) with the LAPD, pull 4.2 G’s doing loops over the Sydney Opera House flying with the RAAF, and obtain her CAMS race driver license. She is a PhD candidate at the University of Sydney and holds a Certificate III in Private Investigation from the Australian Security Academy.