C.O. Moed

C.O. Moed grew up on New York City’s Lower East Side when it was still a tough neighborhood. A recipient of the Elizabeth George Grant for Fiction and a Rockefeller Media Arts nominee, she is also an alum of the groundbreaking WOW Café.

Overcoming an MFA in Dramatic Writing from New York University and an MFA in Media Studies-Film from City College, she worked every legal job possible to support her writing, including as a terrible busboy, a very good housecleaner, a bewildered researcher of secondary illegal drug markets, and an exhausted Press Officer/Editor at the United Nation.

Her award-winning debut memoir, It Was Her New York: True Stories and Snapshots, was a BookLife Editor's Pick, and quarterfinalist in the BookLife Prize in Memoir, as well as Firebird Book Competition’s Judge’s Pick, among others. Her collection of love poems, Can’t Climb a Mountain in a Ball Gown, spans the globe, from dating disasters to a great marriage and everything in between.

She lives with fellow writer, Ted Krever and Sweet William, the cat. They are all Mets fans.