“I’ve always been drawn to the great unknown of space, of dark forbidden places. Something bigger, stranger. After watching The Twilight Zone episode, “I Shot an Arrow into the Air”, the characters’ tempers and anxiety flares knowing they have landed on what they believe to be a foreign planet and the stakes of survival are at an all time high, I knew that was my world from that time on. That’s the tension and drive I want to convey, in any genre.”
Mo Moshaty is a horror writer, lecturer, and producer. Flexing her horror acumen, coupled with her additional vocation as a Cognitive Behavioral Therapist, Mo has lectured with Prairie View A&M in Texas as a keynote speaker for Nightmares from Monkeypaw: A Jordan Peele Symposium, with Horror Studies BAFSS Sig for No Return: A Yellowjackets Symposium, with Centre for the History of the Gothic at the University of Sheffield and the University of California for The Whole Damn Swarm: Celebrating 30 Years of Candyman, Final Girls Berlin Film Festival's Brain Binge on Women's Trauma Within Horror Cinema and Cine-Excess: Raising Hell on The Creepy Kid Horror Subgenre.
As a core member and producer with Nyx Horror Collective, creators of the 13 Minutes of Horror Film Fest for Woman-Identifying and Non-Binary creatives, she has partnered with horror streaming giant, The Shudder Channel for 2021 and 2022, as well as Stowe Story Labs where the collective has created a fellowship to help support woman-identifying creatives over 40+ working in the horror genre. Mo has also been awarded a slot in the prestigious Black Women in Horror Class of 2023, and can be found in the collection, "160 Black Women in Horror" by Sumiko Saulson, Kenya Moss-Dyme, and Kai Leakes
Still engaging with her first love, short horror literature, her work can be found in "A Quaint and Curious Volume of Gothic Tales", by Brigid's Gate Press, and "206 Word Stories" by Bag O' Bones Press. Her debut novella, "Love the Sinner" will be released on July 5th through Brigids Gate Press, and her following titles, "Clairviolence: Tales of Tarot and Torment Volumes 1 & 2 will be released in 2024 through Spooky House Press.
Not bad for a little Brown girl from NY who fell in love with space, Frye and Laurie, and slasher films.
160 Black Women in Horror
Mo Moshaty is featured amongst some the most prolific Black Woman horror writers of this century.
This book was initially compiled in honor of Black Women in Horror during February (Black History Month) and March (Women in History Month) and is an extension of a series that started out as a project for Women in Horror Month back in February 2013. At the time, Women in Horror Month was in February, although now many celebrate it during March, which is Women in History Month. Sumiko Saulson put together 2013, 2014 (60 Black Women), 2017 (80 Black Women), and 2018 (100 Black Women) editions as a project for Iconoclast Productions. The 2023 (160 Black Women) edition was assembled as a Black Women in Horror Month project with Kenya Moss-Dyme. Includes an essay by Kai Leakes.
