Rose Moss

Who is Rose Moss?

Rose Rappoport Moss is an American writer born in South Africa. She has published novels, short stories, words for music and nonfiction.

Moss was born in Johannesburg, and has lived in the United States since 1964.

In Court, a collection of her short stories, appeared as a Penguin Modern Classic in 2007. She has published two novels, The Family Reunion, short-listed for a National Book Award, and The Terrorist. A non-fiction book, Shouting at the Crocodile presents two defendants, Popo Molefe and Mosiuoa Lekota, in the Delmas Treason Trial during the last days of apartheid. In 2008, Lekota became a prime mover of a new political party in South Africa, the Congress of the People, COPE.

Among her more than forty short stories one won a Quill Prize from the Massachusetts Review and another a PEN Syndicated Fiction Award. Several have been cited in Best American Short Stories, been nominated for Pushcart Prizes, selected for anthologies and translated.

Her non-fiction has appeared in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, the Atlantic Monthly, and other similar publications and in scholarly journals. She is a contributing associate for the Harvard Review.