Maggie Moor | NYC | Author | Recording Artist | Psychoanalyst | Athlete

You don’t just read it.

You feel it.

The siren. The observer. The artist.

The voice inside Charmay: New York Noir.

Enter the Noir

Raw.
Deeply human.
Psychological noir.

Slip inside her mind—beat-noir street poetry.
Every head turns when she walks in.
They don’t see the story underneath.

Street poetry. Beauty. Danger. Survival.

Skinless pulls you in.
Like she’s talking just to you.
Maybe she is.

Meet Charmay.

Book cover of Skinless by Maggie Moor, featuring a woman in a red dress against dark curtains, a psychological noir novel.

1999 NYC. A singer masks her “skinless” vulnerability behind a glittering alter ego—until the mask begins to destroy her.

Step into Skinless

8 tracks of jazz-blues—written and performed on the pages of Skinless.

Album cover for Skinless: Songs from the Book, a jazz-noir soundtrack written and performed within the novel.

Explore the Music

Critical Praise

“A deeply moving, deliciously weighty work of fiction…
Moor’s poetic, stream-of-consciousness prose drops readers directly into the mind of a trauma survivor…
Those who surrender to the flow will be rewarded.”

— KIRKUS REVIEWS

MAGGIE MOOR: THE VOICE

Maggie Moor is a NYC singer-songwriter, siren, and author blending noir jazz, blues, and downtempo electronica into cinematic, close-mic performances. Her poetic lyrics and evocative soundscapes have led to acclaimed albums featuring icons such as David Sanborn, Richie Cannata, Kenny Rampton, and Eddie Ojeda,

Intimate. Naked. Poetic.

Songs written into the world of Skinless.

“Deep, sensuous singing… cinematic lyrics.”
— David Sanborn

Enter the Music

Charmay: New York Noir

She isn’t the object of the story.
She tells it.

Gut-raw psychological crime noir.

A velvet-voiced singer with a “skinless” heart walks the razor’s edge between survival and deadly betrayal.

Redemption isn’t what you think.

“A sharp subversion of the femme fatale.” — Kirkus Reviews

Charmay, a noir singer character, performing in a red dress with a vintage microphone under blue stage lighting.

The hunter is haunted.

Enter the Series

The Insight

Observer of the mirrors.
The shadows. The beauty. The fracture.

A life lived—slipping between the structures to feel it all.

A psychoanalytic eye—inside and out.

“Equally profound is [Moor’s] gifts for observation and perception.” — Kirkus Reviews

$Reflection of a woman’s face in glass beside her own, creating a layered double image that evokes introspection, identity, and the fractured self.$

The Body

Quiet power.
A challenge against the self.

Focus.
Clarity.
Integration.

Female athlete in a competition pose, showing muscular definition and control, representing discipline, focus, and physical mastery.

Mind Body Athlete

I AM

Expression.
Integration.
A return to what is alive.

Mind. Body. Heart—moving together.
Curiosity. Nature. Presence.

I AM

MAGGIE MOOR

AUTHOR • PSYCHOANALYST • ARTIST

Portrait of Maggie Moor, author and artist, looking directly at the camera with a calm, introspective expression.

Maggie Moor is a Gradiva-nominated clinician and the voice of New York Noir.

Hailed as “undeniably powerful” (BookLife) and a “must-read” (IndieReader), Maggie Moor writes literary psychological crime that offers a perspective of rare depth—where raw lived experience meets a piercing gift for observation.

Through the fierce lens of a femme fatale, Moor’s stream-of-consciousness prose places you inside the narrator’s mind in real time—a “subversion of the noir trope” that is intimate, human, and “deeply moving” (Kirkus Reviews)—in a unique, “street poetry that vacillates between beauty and despair” (Foreword Reviews).

Meet Maggie Moor