Anne Elizabeth Moore was born in Winner, SD, and lives in the Catskills with two ineffective feline personal assistants, Captain America and Mitakuye “Taku” Oyasin Moore-America. She is a cultural critic, journalist, and humorist and works in a range of text, visual, and audio formats.
Her 2021 title, Gentrifier: A Memoir, was an NPR Best Book. 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 has freelanced for The Guardian, Anarchist Review of Books, Salon, Paris Review, The Baffler, Truthout, The Believer, The Nation, and many others. Her 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. Her essay “I was given a house” in The Guardian was the runner-up for an ASJA Award in the category of Social Change and was short-listed for a Nonprofit News Award for Breaking Barriers.
Moore is the former editor and co-publisher of award-winning Punk Planet, the founding editor of the Best American Comics, and 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, a grant from the New York State Council for the Arts, a Ragdale Fellowship, two Fulbright Scholarships, and a Yaddo residency. 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 currently teaches at the School of Visual Arts.
Body Horror: Capitalism, Fear, Misogyny, Jokes, was released in an expanded second edition by Feminist Press in Spring 2023. My Inevitable Murder, the “true-ish crime” podcast in which she investigates her own murder in advance, was shortlisted for two Women’s International Podcast Awards and a Press Gazette Future of Media Award. The second season of My Inevitable Murder is supported by a New York State Council for the Arts Support for Artists grant and the Fund for Investigative Journalism. Moore is the 2025 Jennifer Jahrling Forese Writer-in-Residence at Colby College.
Audio and Video Interviews and Documentaries
Off:Re:Onshore, Canadian Centre for Architecture (2018)
Write a House : écrire le futur d’une ville fantôme, Solidarum (2017)
Detroit’s Write A House Program Presents Keys to Latest Home Recipient, WXYZ (2016)
A Different Kind of Comics Convention Hits Town, Chicago Tonight (2015)
Money and Lies in Anti-trafficking NGOs, The Matthew Fillipowicz Show (2015)
American Writer Tells Story of Cambodian ‘Women on the Rise’, VOA Khmer (2015)
Vienna Art Week: Die Wiener Männermode, Leporello, Ö1 (2014)
Ladydrawers: Our Fashion Year and the early years, Helsingin Sanomat (2014)
Our Fashion Year, The Matthew Fillipowicz Show (2014)
Political unrest in Cambodia, LBO News from Doug Henwood (2014)
AWP ’12: Anne Elizabeth Moore, High Volumes with Joelle Jameson (2012)
Garments, Gadgets, and Third World Labor with Anne Elizabeth Moore, Radio Free Ruin (2012)
American Grrrl’s Zine Project with Cambodian Women, ABC Radio Australia (2011)
DIY media in Democratic Cambodia, The Rapidian (2011)
Anne Elizabeth Moore on Cambodian Grrrl, The Matthew Filipowicz Show (2011)
Anne Elizabeth Moore on Ladydrawers, The Matthew Filipowicz Show (2011)
Independent Voices, GritTV with Laura Flanders (2010)
Self-Publishing in Cambodia, Worldview With Jerome McDonnell (2010)
Corporate Graffiti, Submedia TV (2008)
There is No Media Justice Without Women, National Conference on Media Reform (panel audio, 2008)
Anne Elizabeth Moore: Unmarketable, Bad at Sports (2008)
Corporations Cash in on the Counterculture, WBEZ’s 848 (2007)
Interview with Anne Elizabeth Moore, WFMU’s The Speakeasy with Dorian (2006)
Anne Elizabeth Moore of the Best American Comics, WBEZ’s 848 with Steve Edwards (2006)
Print and Online Features
Write A House is Building a New Literary City in Detroit, Publishers Weekly (2016)
Anne Elizabeth Moore on New Book and Shoddy State of Chicago Publishing, WTTW (2015)
Rebellion in a Panel, Tuima.fi (2014)
Sarjakuvakäsikirjoittaja Anne Elizabeth Moore lähti intiaanireservaatista Kambodžaan, Helsingin Sanomat (2014)
The Wonder Woman Interview with Anne Elizabeth Moore, Straitened Circumstances (2014)
The Anti-Nicholas Kristof Backlash, Buzzfeed (2012)
The Rumpus Interview with Anne Elizabeth Moore, The Rumpus (2012)
‘Ladydrawers’ Creates Big Picture of Cartoon Bias, Women’s E-News (2012)
Hostile Questions, Booklist (2012)
“Cambodian Grrrl” Brings Self-publishing to Phnom Penh, Today’s Chicago Woman (2011)
Anne Elizabeth Moore: Garment Work, CBS2 Chicago (2011)
Negotiating an Artistic Practice in a Capitalist Ecology, Art21 (2011)
Have Microphone, Will Listen—So Please Take Your Time, Flood Magazine (2010)
Write or Wrong, Time Out Chicago (2009)
Q&A With Anne Elizabeth Moore, Rob Walker’s Murketing.com (2007)
An Interview With Anne Elizabeth Moore, Bookslut (2007)
Marketing At the Dinner Table, The Indypendent (2007)
“Seeing Red,” New City (cover feature, 2007)
Moore, Anne Elizabeth: Lumpen (2006)
Name That Toon, Time Out Chicago (2005)
Miscellaneous