Jeff Moss

Jeff Moss is a co-creator of Sesame Street, and he has served as head writer and composer-lyricist for the show. He has won fourteen Emmys and written the songs for four Grammy-winning records. Jeff has gained a place in the hearts of parents and kids with songs such as "Rubber Duckie," and "I Love Trash." Hailed by New York Newsday as "the children's poet laureate," he has written more than a dozen Sesame Street books and is also the author of the best-selling children's poetry collections The...See more

Jeff Moss is a co-creator of Sesame Street, and he has served as head writer and composer-lyricist for the show. He has won fourteen Emmys and written the songs for four Grammy-winning records. Jeff has gained a place in the hearts of parents and kids with songs such as "Rubber Duckie," and "I Love Trash." Hailed by New York Newsday as "the children's poet laureate," he has written more than a dozen Sesame Street books and is also the author of the best-selling children's poetry collections The Butterfly Jar and The Other Side of the Door, as well as Bob and Jack, Hieronymus White, and The Dad of the Dad of the Dad of Your Dad, stories in verse. His music and lyrics for The Muppets Take Manhattan earned him an academy Award nomination. Jeff Moss lives with his wife and son in New York City, very near the American Museum of Natural History. See less