Mia V. Moss (she/they) was born January 12, 1981 in Orange, CA, and grew up along the west coast, primarily in and around Portland, OR. They hold an undergraduate degree in anthropology from Portland State University, where they also worked as a journalist before making their way back down the I-5 to land just outside San Francisco with two cats (Dante and Nari) an aussiedoodle (Gadget) and a stalwart husband.

Her short genre fiction has appeared in anthologies such as Galactic Stew and Cat Ladies of the Apocalypse. Her first novella, Mai Tais for the Lost (2022), is a noir murder mystery set in a decadent near-future Earth under the Pacific ocean.

Moss is a life-long baker and avid cocktail enthusiast, and has a long-running recipe feature in their monthly newsletter, The Stardust Dispatch. When not writing, they work at an animal welfare non-profit and are passionate about role-playing games, native plant gardening, constructing large-scale art, karaoke, and endurance running.