Anne Elizabeth Moore
Nonfiction
Hobart, NY
Anne Elizabeth Moore was born in Winner, SD, and lives in the Catskills with an ineffective feline personal assistant, Captain America. Her most recent book, Gentrifier: A Memoir, is out from Catapult Books now.
In 2019, her book on comics creator Julie Doucet, Sweet Little Cunt, won a Will Eisner Comics Industry Award. Her book Body Horror was nominated for a 2017 Lambda Literary Award and a Chicago Review of Books Award, was listed as a 100 Best Book Of All Time on the Political Economy by BookAuthority and named Best Book by the Chicago Public Library. The comics journalism collection Threadbare made the 2016 Tits & Sass list “Best Investigative Reporting on Sex Work.” Cambodian Grrrl received a 2012 Lowell Thomas Award for Travel Journalism. Unmarketable was named Best Book of 2007 by Mother Jones.
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 (2008 and 2010, respectively). “Three Days in Detroit,” an essay in the Baffler, was long-listed for Best American Essays 2018.
Moore is the former editor of award-winning Punk Planet, the founding editor of the Best American Comics, and is the former editor in chief of the Chicago Reader. She has exhibited work in the Whitney Biennial in New York; in Leipzig, Phnom Penh, Berlin, Tbilisi, Lisbon, and Vienna; and in a solo exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago. Moore has been honored with 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 taught at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, was a visiting artist at ArtCenter, and was the 2019 Mackey Chair at Beloit College.
She will be using her residency to work on her second memoir, about pain and white supremacy.
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