Anne Elizabeth Moore is an award-winning journalist, best-selling comics anthologist, and internationally lauded cultural critic. Called "one of the sharpest thinkers and cultural critics bouncing around the globe today" by Razorcake, a 'general phenom' by the Chicago Reader, and "a critic" by the New York Times, Moore has also been named "fun" by FastCompany, a "rad writer" by Time Out New York-Kids, and a "notable underground author" by the Onion. Her book Unmarketable was named Best Book of 2007 by Mother Jones. Body Horror is on the Nonfiction Shortlist for the 2017 Chicago Review of Books Nonfiction Award and was named a Best Book of 2017 by the Chicago Public Library. Cambodian Grrrl received a 2012 Lowell Thomas Award for Travel Journalism. Threadbare made the 2016 Tits & Sass list of "Best Investigative Reporting on Sex Work." Moore's essays "Reimagining the National Border Patrol Museum (and Gift Shop)" and "17 Theses on the Edge" were honorable mentions in Best American Non-Required Reading (2008 and 2010, respectively). Her work in comics has received Harvey and Eisner Award nominations and appeared on several bestseller lists. She is the former editor of seminal, award-winning Punk Planet and the founding editor of the Best American Comics, which continues to be a New York Times bestselling title. 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. She has been honored to receive a National Endowment for the Arts Award, a UN Press Fellowship, a USC Annenberg/Getty Arts Journalism Fellowship, and two Fulbright Scholarships. She teaches at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the College for Creative Studies. She was born in Winner, SD and in 2016, was awarded a fellowship in Detroit's unique Write A House program. She resides there with her cat.
