Maggie Moor

“Moor’s poetic, stream-of-consciousness prose drops readers directly into the mind of a trauma survivor. On the surface, Charmay might come across as a typical femme fatale… but she’s a character with agency and authority. Those who surrender to the flow will be rewarded.” — Kirkus Reviews

Maggie Moor is a jazz and blues singer-songwriter, licensed psychoanalyst, national-level NPC fitness competitor, and author of I AM: Mind and Body Union (Simon & Schuster) and the Charmay: New York Noir series.

A Gradiva-nominated clinician specializing in PTSD, Moor has worked with individuals and couples, female inmates at Rikers Island, and private investigations in New York City.

Her fiction explores trauma, addiction, identity, survival, and the shifting terrain between perception and reality. Skinless: The Story of a Female Survivor, the first novel in Charmay: New York Noir, has been praised as “undeniably powerful” by BookLife, a “must-read” by IndieReader, and for its “street poetry” by Foreword Reviews.

Moor is also a recording artist. Her companion album Skinless: Songs from the Book features Kenny Rampton, Eddie Ojeda, and Buddy Williams, and she has recorded with David Sanborn and Richie Cannata.

She lives and practices in New York City