Maranda Moses is a former freelance writer who has contributed book reviews, interviews, and societal commentary to several publications, including the Montreal Gazette, Essence, and Mosaic Literary Magazine. She authored Proud Past, Bright Future, commissioned by the Union United Church of Montreal, and earned a Silver IPPY Award in 2009 for her work.
Transitioning to fiction, her short story “Ritual” earned placement in Véhicule Press’s anthology Short Stuff: New English Stories from Quebec. She has recently completed her first full-length novel and is currently working on a short story collection.
Maranda lives in Montreal but spends part of her time in the Chicago metropolitan area.
PUBLICATIONS
Awards/Honours
- 2009 Silver IPPY Award for Proud Past, Bright Future
- “Ritual”, Shortlisted for the 2002 QWF/CBC Short Story Competition
Books
Anthologies
Articles/Book Reviews
- “Interview with Lawrence Hill”, Mosaic Magazine, Issue 25, 09/09
- The Pirate’s Daughter by Margaret Cezair-Thompson, Review for Mosaic Magazine, Issue 22, 08/08
- The Girl with the Golden Shoes by Colin Channer, Review for Mosaic Magazine, Issue 20, 10/07
- Unburnable by Marie-Elena John, Review for Mosaic Magazine, Issue 18, 04/07
- “So what did they think of the book?” Reader Reviews of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Montreal Gazette, July 18, 2005
- “Toward true multiculturalism, where all are equal,” Review of Where Race Does Not Matter: The New Spirit Of Modernity by Cecil Foster, Montreal Gazette, February 26, 2005
- “The struggle continues,” Interview with Cecil Foster, Montreal Gazette, February 26, 2005
- “Walker’s success hard-won,” Review of Review of Alice Walker: A Life by Evelyn C. White, Montreal Gazette, December 3, 2004
- “Street lit heads north,” Montreal Gazette, August 7, 2004
- “Foreign-Service Officer” & “So you want to be a diplomat,” Essence Magazine, June 2004
- “Sushi Speak,” Essence Magazine, July 2003