About Rick Moss

Rick Moss is a multi-disciplinary artist living in Brooklyn, New York. He studied painting and printmaking at The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and earned his degree at California College of the Arts. He devoted much of his career to design, including print, video, and web. He is a founding principle of the online business forum, RetailWire. He publishes his songwriting under the name, Rock Moses.

Ebocloud (2013), his first novel, published by Aqueous Books, is a near-future thriller about a massive social media movement. Cited at the time of its release for its predictions of a coming “social singularity,” it was included in the syllabus for a Duke University literature course, alongside William Gibson’s Neuromancer and Dave Eggers’ The Circle. It features a unique novel-within-a-novel structure.

Moss’s second book, Tellers (2016), stitches together a series of short stories with an overarching narrative thread. Bestselling author Ryan Mathews characterized Tellers as “a Matryoshka doll of a book—stories nesting inside stories nesting inside stories.”

Most recently, Moss published Impossible Figures, distinctive for its use of multiple, looping narratives and illustrations to tell the tale of a once-celebrated conceptual artist, Ranger, making a desperate comeback attempt. Ranger recruits Oscar Hiller, a self-destructive young physicist on the verge of a quantum theory breakthrough, to stage the most consequential art performance of all time — one that may unravel time and existence in the process.