Melody Moezzi

Moezzi has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, CNN, Parabola, The Huffington Post, NPR, and Ms. magazine, among others. She was a columnist for the short-lived Muslim Girl Magazine. Moezzi speaks openly about having bipolar disorder and is a regular columnist and blogger for Bipolar Magazine.^[6][7][8]

Moezzi has appeared on several television and radio programs, including CNN, NPR, BBC, PRI and Air America. She founded the activist group Hooping for Peace.^[9][10] Moezzi holds degrees from Wesleyan University, Emory University School of Law, and Emory's Rollins School of Public Health.^[11][12]

• War on Error: Real Stories of American Muslims. University of Arkansas Press. 2007. ISBN 9781557288554.^[13][14]
• Haldol and Hyacinths: A Bipolar Life. Avery Publishing. 2013. ISBN 9781583334683.^{[15][16][17][18]}
• The Rumi Prescription: How an Ancient Mystic Poet Changed My Modern Manic Life, TarcherPerigee (2020).^[4]

• 2007 Georgia Author of the Year Awards (GAYA) winner for Creative Non-Fiction (Essay) for War on Error^[19][20]
• 2008 Gustavus Myers Book Award honorable mention for War on Error^[21]