Born and raised in New York City, Marissa R. Moss is a freelance journalist currently residing in East Nashville, Tennessee. She contributes frequently to Rolling Stone, American Songwriter, Billboard, NPR and the Nashville Scene and has had bylines in FADER, NYLON, Pitchfork, Entertainment Weekly, The Guardian, Politico, Teen Vogue and more. The 2018 recipient of the Rolling Stone Chet Flippo Award for Excellence in Country Music Journalism, Moss has written over fifteen cover stories on artists including Eric Church, Miranda Lambert, John Prine, Margo Price, Guy Clark and Noel Gallagher. Her breakthrough story on the culture of sexual harassment in the world of country radio, Inside Country Radio's Dark, Secret History of Sexual Harassment and Misconduct, for Rolling Stone Country, is widely regarded as a touchstone in Nashville's #TimesUp reckoning. 

She is currently at work on her first book, HER COUNTRY: How the Women of Country Music Become the Success Story They Were Never Supposed to Be, to be published by Henry Holt & Company on May 20, 2022.

Marissa has appeared as a guest on The TODAY Show, CBS, Entertainment Tonight, WPLN, the Pop Literacy Podcast and more. She has also been a featured panelist and moderator. She was awarded as Best Music Reporter by the Nashville Scene’s 2019 Best of Nashville.

She has also served a summer as a contributing editor for Hamptons magazine, and is the founder and Editor in Chief of Lockeland Springsteen, a Nashville-based music blog. She has a background in political communications, and worked for a variety of progressive causes in New York and Los Angeles, including Maria Shriver's Women's Conference, the American Foundation for Equal Rights and the Special Olympics World Games. As a bio and copy writer, she has crafted work for influencers, leaders and artists from Shriver, to President Barack Obama, to Grammy-winning musicians and New York City landmark Carnegie Hall.

Marissa was educated at New York University's Gallatin School of the Arts.

She is represented by Susan Canavan at Waxman Literary.