About Michael

Michael Moy is a fourth generation Chinese-American Bostonian (strange combo, right?) who grew up in Iowa and Missouri, where he grew accustomed to being different and being identified with all bad things Asian: Pearl Harbor, the rise of communism, unidentifiable food items. As a result, he developed a unique perspective.

He attended Washington University in St. Louis, where he spent four years jumping from Neurobiology to Architecture to Fine Arts. Since Wash U frowned on jumping, Michael moved to New York City, where he instead jumped from job to job.

After an excruciating journey through public relations, fashion and cosmetics, and a communications degree from NYU, Michael eventually landed in consumer branding and package design. He also landed in a LTR with his partner of 13 years, creating’”as Michael describes it’”the perfect marriage between finance and the arts.

In 2001, Michael left the firm where he was a partner and creative director to focus on the design of a new loft overlooking New York Harbor in New Jersey and the construction of a country home in the Catskill Mountains of New York. Since that time, with both places completed but never really finished, Michael now does ‘œWhatever I Want?’ as a full-time homemaker, something with which he is coming to terms.

When not doing his part to stimulate the economy through consumerism, he is involved in a wide range of independent projects ranging from business plan development to furniture design. Michael serves on the board of a children’s education charity in New York, chairing their annual benefit and overseeing marketing and communications.

Michael and his partner live happily with their dog, a local rescue renamed Lucky (who really is), and a lot of well-edited stuff. He spends the majority of his free time hunting and gathering, dining out, entertaining, traveling, and secretly reading his partner’s gigantic stack of financial disaster books. Be warned, he’s also been known to say things for effect…

Michael can be reached at michael@queercents.com.