Meet Maggie Moor

Maggie Moor is a New York City author, recording artist, licensed psychoanalyst, former fitness model and national fitness competitor. Her literary work is voice-driven psychological suspense exploring identity and resilience a jazz‑blues edge.

She is the author of I AM: Your Guide to Mind and Body Union for Total Awareness (Archway/ Schuster, 2018) and Skinless: The Story of a Female Survivor  (Austin Macauley 2021), reissued in 2025 as her definitive Writer’s Edit after rights reclamation. I AM is a psychoanalytic‑spiritual, East‑meets‑West guide to integrating mind and body to calm the nervous system and support healing. Skinless is a literary psychological‑suspense novel narrated by Charmay, a singer-songwriter fighting to reclaim her voice and self in a gritty 1999-2001, New York City. 

As a recording artist and ASCAP member, Moor blends alternative jazz, blues, and poetic lyricism across three albums, performing at venues such as The Cutting Room, The Bitter End, and Stone Pony. She has also recorded and performed live as Charmay. Her album recordings include collaborations with David Sanborn, Richie Cannata, Kenny Rampton, Rob Paparozzi, Mark White, and Eddie Ojeda.

Moor is a NYSED‑licensed psychoanalyst and NYGSP graduate, awarded a doctoral equivalency by the Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies (New York, 2018). Her Gradiva‑nominated thesis, “Coloring Outside the Lines,” reflects an approach that integrates Eastern spirituality, yoga, and psychotherapy. She mentors people in recovery as part of her wellness work and contributes pro bono outreach supporting youth homelessness programs.

Theater‑trained at William Esper and Stella Adler, she has appeared on stage, television, and film (full credits on her acting page). An NPC national‑level bikini‑division athlete, she continues to train daily, bringing an embodied discipline to her creative and clinical practice. Born and raised on the Bard College campus in New York’s Hudson Valley—and the great‑grandchild of vaudevillians Charlie Brown and Mae Newman—she carries a performance lineage into her prose and songs.

Selected praise

“An eloquent crime novel… sentences vacillate between beauty and despair… Charmay’s street poetry… raw will to live.” — Foreword Reviews

•“Charmay is willing to be whatever she has to be to survive… wringing hope from the streets of 1990s New York City.” — Clarion Reviews

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