Alison Mosshart is a 41 year old artist, musician and writer currently residing in Nashville and Los Angeles. She is best known for her work in her musical duo The Kills, as well as fronting the Grammy nominated Nashville based rock n' roll band, The Dead Weather. She has released upwards of 16 albums in her musical career and has toured around the world performing for the last 27 years. Mosshart is also a visual artist, working in paints, multi-media and photography. She studied art for two years at the University of Florida, following a brief unrecorded spell at the University of Honolulu learning print making in the middle of the night. She is for the most part, self taught. She has had 5 major solo exhibitions, "Fire Power" at the Joseph Gross Gallery in NYC, 2015, "Fire Power Los Angeles" at Maxfield in Los Angeles,2017, "Tonight Only", in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, 2016, "Side Effects" at Panteon in Mexico City, 2018, and "Los Trachas at FF-1051 Gallery in Los Angeles, 2018. She has had artwork in numerous group shows and art fairs around the world, and contributes to many fine art charity auctions, most recent for the Silverlake Conservatory of Music and Teenage Cancer Trust. She is currently working on another Kills record and another book.

Car Ma is Alison Mosshart's first collection in print of her art, photography, and writing. Mosshart is the lead singer for bands such as The Kills and Dead Weather. Her mother was a high school art teacher and her father a used car dealer-both influenced Car Ma's images, poems, and stories. Mosshart describes the book: "It's a book about America, performance, and life on the road. It's a book about fender bender portraiture, story tellin' tire tracks, and the never-ending search for the spirit under the hood."