Merrilee Moss is a playwright and novelist who also lectures part-time in writing. Her lesbian ghost thriller, Fedora Walks, was first published as a serialised novel in Melbourne's Lesbiana. Merrilee is the author of a number of books for young adults, including Thriller & Me and the eight-book adventure series Hot Pursuit, written in collaboration with Jenny Pausacker.

Her plays, which have toured to theatres and community venues all over Australia, include If Looks Could Kill, Empty Suitcases and Over the Hill.  Her most recent play The Slippery Slope had its "world premiere" in 2002 in Canberra and was performed in Melbourne at LaMama theatre in March 2004. The Slippery Slope is a comic-tragedy, featuring a reunion of friends at a sixtieth birthday party (the "Big Chill" twenty years on). 

In 1997, Moss also edited a non-fiction book of life stories, Taking A Punt: First Stop Bonegilla, working with a group of people in their 70s who began their lives in Australia at the Bonegilla Migrant camp in Wodonga.