New York City Singer-Songwriter — Alternative Jazz-Blues

Lyrical. Poetic. Cinematic. Experience intimate, close-mic performances and atmospheric poetry in every note.

Enter the Music

Experience Maggie’s signature blend of jazz, blues, and poetic storytelling.

Maggie Moor - New York Singer-Songwriter | Author

Maggie Moor is a New York City artist blending cinematic jazz‑blues and literary psychological noir—exploring resilience, the inner life, and song.

Recording collaborations with David Sanborn, Kenny Rampton, and Richie Cannata. Skinless—second edition, expanded and revised—an NYC urban noir returns in 2025; “An eloquent crime novel…” (Foreword Reviews). For fans of The Bell Jar and Just Kids.

SKINLESS- NYC, 1999: Beauty. Danger. Survival. Song.

A literary psychological thriller, told in Charmay’s street-poet, beat-style voice, featuring Maggie Moor songs.

1999, New York’s Lower East Side: As chaos ricochets between beats, bullets, and bedsheets, Charmay—a street-smooth and trauma-bruised singer-songwriter—must choose between the mask that kept her safe and the voice that could save her.

ARC Request through Dec. 02, 2025 | Ebook: Oct. 22, 2025 Pre-Order now | Print: Nov. 12, 2025 | Bookshop coming soon

Intimate NYC Jazz-Blues — Cinematic and Poetic

Featuring Kenny Rampton and David Sanborn • Songs from Skinless

Foreword Review

“Most of the book’s sentences vacillate between beauty and despair… It’s a humane portrait of often inhuman actions—an eloquent crime novel about a woman’s relentless desire to survive.”

— Benjamin Welton, Foreword Review

Clarion Review

 “A humane, unsparing portrait—wringing hope from the streets of 1990s New York City.”

— Clarion Reviews, Danielle Ballantyne

 

Foreword Review

“A unique writing style that takes you directly inside the narrator’s mind… twisting right up to a suspenseful ending.” — Foreword (B Hodge)

Author Review

“A voice unlike any I’ve encountered—hip, illuminating, and elevating.”

— Kate Lardner, author of “Shut Up, He Explained: The Memoir of a Blacklisted Kid”

Goodreads

“Lyrical… with the grit of Jim Carroll.”

— D.H.K., Goodreads