Riki Moss

Riki Moss wrote one novel, An Obese White Gentleman In No Apparent Distress, incorporating the antedoctal stories of a charismatic Aikido artist with a fictional audience and more or less fictional relationship. North Atlantic published the book in 2009. It's currently out of print and will be republished via KPD in both electronic and print editions.

Two of her short stories have been published in the anthologies listed, she was also the editor, with Terry Dobson and Janne Watson, of It's A Lot Like Dancing.

In her new book in progress (working title The Wrap), which is a lively account of a triangle of artists from the sixties to beyond today, she means to open portals into the artistic babble around us, with all its diversity, chaos and curiosity; and yes, dystopia. It's a love story, at times poetic, at times profane. but always questioning what the world actually is without the lens we employ to make up our stories.

For most of her adult life she's balanced writing with the visual arts and had a long career as potter, painter, sculptor, mostly in Vermont, where she lives on the Champlain Islands. Her visual work is a kind of archaeology, an exploration of life forms that maybe could have made it. They carry no message, except to be seen, to be acknowledged – here we are – and to ask the question, what are we supposed to be doing together?

That's also the question in her novels.