Anne Elizabeth Moore is an award-winning journalist and internationally lauded cultural critic. She has been called “one of the sharpest thinkers and cultural critics bouncing around the globe today” by Razorcake and “a critic” by the New York Times. Gentrifier: A Memoir was an NPR Best Book. Her critical overview of the work of comics creator Julie Doucet, Sweet Little Cunt, received an Eisner Award. Her book Body Horror: Capitalism, Fear, Misogyny, Jokes was a Lambda Literary Award finalist, was on the Nonfiction Shortlist for the Chicago Review of Books Award, and was named a Best Book by the Chicago Public Library. Cambodian Grrrl received a Lowell Thomas Award for Travel Journalism. Threadbare made the Tits & Sass list of "Best Investigative Reporting on Sex Work.” Unmarketable was named Best Book of 2007 by Mother Jones. In 2023 Body Horror was reissued in an expanded edition by Feminist Press.

Moore's essays “Reimagining the National Border Patrol Museum (and Gift Shop)” and “17 Theses on the Edge” received honorable mentions in Best American Non-Required Reading. “Three Days in Detroit,” from The Baffler, received an honorable mention in Best American Essays. Moore's work has been acclaimed by The New York Times Magazine, USA Today, Time, Forbes, Entertainment Weekly, and others. She has been featured in the New York Times, Chicago Sun-Times, Detroit Free Press, the Indypendent, Rumpus, Time Out Chicago, and on the covers of New City and Verkholetti; and on Radio Australia, Voice of America, Georgian National Television, CNN, GritTV with Laura Flanders, Worldview with Jerome McDonnell, WBEZ's 848, WFMU, WDET, and WTTW.

Moore has been honored to receive a National Endowment for the Arts Media Arts Award, a UN Press Fellowship, a USC Annenberg/Getty Arts Journalism Fellowship, and two Fulbright Scholarships. She has been funded by the New York State Council on the Arts, the Fund for Investigative Journalism, and the Economic Hardship Reporting Project. She is the founding editor of the Best American Comics series from Houghton Mifflin, and the former editor of the Chicago Reader, The Comics Journal, and Punk Planet. She was a Jennifer Jahrling Forese Writer in Residence at Colby College and the Lois and Willard Mackey Chair at Beloit College. She was born in Winner, SD and now lives in the Western Catskills with two ineffective feline personal assistants.

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