Gregory Mose

@gregorymose

About

Gregory Mose was born in 1970 inLos Angeles. He graduated with honors from Harvard College in 1992 with adegree in English and American Literature and then took a year off to teachEnglish in Athens, Greece. He returned to the US to study law at Duke, where hespecialized in public international law and institutions before accepting a twoyear contract with the UN High Commissioner for Refugees in Conakry, Guinea.

While in Africa he worked primarilywith Liberian and Sierra Leonean refugees, helping to ensure their continuedprotected status under international law and facilitating their resettlement inspecial cases. During that time he witnessed first hand the fallout of SierraLeone’s vicious coup and civil war in which thousands of civilians weremurdered or mutilated.

In 1998 he moved to London to joinhis fiancée and worked for three years as a corporate securities lawyer forFreshfields Bruckhaus Deringer before quitting to become a stay-at-home father.In 2005 he moved with his wife Sophia and son Sebastian to Montcabrier, a smallvillage in southwest France, where they own and operate Domaine de la Dolce, aniche baby-and-toddler-friendly holiday cottage complex. 

Stunt Road is Mose’s firstpublished novel. He also blogs about life in rural France and writes for alocal English language magazine.