Anne Elizabeth Moore

Anne Elizabeth Moore is an award-winning journalist, best-selling comics anthologist, and internationally lauded cultural critic. She has been heralded as “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 called “Fun” by Fast Company, “Rad writer” by Time Out New York-Kids, a “Notable underground author” by the Onion, “the next generation of anti-commercial artists,” by Ron English and “a perfect altruistic punk-rock super-heroine” by the folks at Hipster Book Club. (Technically they were reviewing a short story by Elizabeth Crane.)

Her art history text on Canadian feminist comics creator Julie Doucet won an Eisner award.

Her book Body Horror was a Lambda Literary Award finalist, is on the Nonfiction Shortlist for the 2017 Chicago Review of Books Award, and was named a Best Book of 2017 by the Chicago Public Library. Unmarketable was named Best Book of 2007 by Mother Jones. 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). She is the former editor of 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 and sits on BookAuthority’s list of 100 Most Important Books on Political Economy of All Time.

Moore’s work has been acclaimed by The New York Times Magazine, USA Today, The Rumpus, Time, Mother Jones, ThinkProgress, Bitch, Advertising Age, Forbes, Women’s E-News, the Guardian, and Entertainment Weekly. She has been featured in the New York Times, Chicago Sun-Times, Detroit Free Press, the Chicago Reader, Bookslut, the Indypendent, Rumpus, Time Out Chicago, the New York Times, and on the covers of New City and Verkholetti; and on Radio Australia, Voice of America, VOA Khmer, Georgian National Television, CNN, GritTV with Laura Flanders, Worldview with Jerome McDonnell, WBEZ’s 848, WFMU, WDET, and WTTW.

Moore holds an MA in Art History, Theory, and Criticism from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and has been honored to receive a National Endowment for the Arts Media Arts Award and a UN Press Fellowship, act as the Mackey Creative Writing Chair at Beloit College, and hold a USC Annenberg/Getty Arts Journalism Fellowship, and two Fulbright Scholarships. She taught in the Visual Critical Studies and Low-Residency MFA programs at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She was born in Winner, SD and currently lives with her ineffective feline personal assistant, Captain America, in Delaware County, NY.