About

Our writing says more about us than most of us realize.

An experienced corporate and non-profit leader in both the US and Canada, Peggy started her career as an Assistant Attorney General charged with handling hate violence cases for the State of Maine. Since then, she has held leadership roles and advised leading corporate law firms, for-profit and non-profit startups, corporations and charitable organizations.


Prior to launching her consulting practice, Peggy served as strategic communications advisor and Director of New Business Development for a leading Canadian law firm, where she managed a talented team of writers and worked closely with the executive team to navigate a wide range of high stakes matters.


More than 100,000 copies of Peggy’s award-winning children’s books on bullying, teasing and identity have sold. Her essays, poems and short stories have appeared in The New York Times, Princeton Alumni Weekly, Lapis Magazine, Learning for Justice, Explore Sri Lanka, Empowering Parents and Intima. 

Photo  by Matthew Plexman

Peggy is a graduate of Princeton University, Washington College of Law and the Stonecoast MFA program.   She is vice-chair of the Board of Directors of the Canadian Women’s Foundation, and formerly served on the boards of PrevNet and Hardy Girls, Healthy Women. She moonlights as a puppy raiser for CNIB.

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My father’s words worked hard. He used as few as possible. “I love you,” I told him before I left for college. We were varnishing the gunwales of the canoe he had given me. “There’s a holiday,” he said, pointing to a spot I had missed. “I love you,” I told him as I pulled out of the driveway in an old car he had found. “You should say you love me back,” I said. “Write if you get work,” he said. “I love you,” I said when he was older and unwell. “That’s good,” he said, his eyes full of love and mischief.

Peggy Moss, The New York Times, August 11, 2020  Modern Love/Tiny Love Stories

Named one of the Best 

Children’s Books of the year, 2004 

– Bank Street College of Education.

Winner, “Teachers’ Choice Awards for Children’s Books, 2005

– Learning Magazine

“This is one of the best of the recent books for discussion about teasing;

its direct, first-person narrative and informal portraits

bring close classroom, hallway, and schoolyard scenarios

for kids and adults to talk about.”

                                                 -Booklist

Gold Medal Winner, Independent Publisher’s First Annual Moonbeam Children’s Book Awards, 

Picture Book—All Ages

Mom’s Choice Award – honoring Excellence


“I love this story because  a real girl … is granted a great gift – the joy of knowing a friend’s forgiveness. This should be a lesson to us all.”

 

— Lyn Miken Brown, co-author of Packing Girlhood: Rescuing Our Daughters From Marketers’ Schemes.

Winner, 2010 BEST BOOK 

– Society of School Librarians

“With humor and heart, One of Us explores the stress of peer pressure and what is truly lost when we try to fit in. Its simple, powerful message; true friends respect what makes you who you are. This is a terrific conversation starter for parents and teachers, and a must-read for kids.”


— Rachel Simmons, author of Odd Girl Out and The Curse of the Good Girl