Anne Elizabeth Moore


Anne Elizabeth Moore is an American cultural critic, artist, journalist, and editor. She is well known for her books Body Horror: Capitalism, Fear, Misogyny, Jokes, Sweet Little Cunt: the Graphic Work of Julie Doucet, about Julie Doucet, and Gentrifier: A Memoir. Her work mainly deals with the nature of power and women’s oppression, the housing crisis and gentrification, and women’s health.
Moore’s writing has been featured in various publications, including the Guardian, Salon, Paris Review, Chicago Journal, and The Baffler. She has written extensively about culture and media, illness, and human rights. Her essays “Reimagining the National Border Patrol Museum ” and “17 Theses on the Edge” have respectively received honorable mentions in Best American Non-Required Reading.

Life and career

Born 1971 in Winner, South Dakota, Moore attended the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire and later the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she got her start and trained as an artist to eventually exhibit work internationally. Her work has also been in the Whitney Biennial in New York and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago. She also received various awards, including the National Endowment for the Arts Media Award, the Ragdale Fellowship, the USC Annenberg/Getty Arts Journalism Fellowship, the UN Press Fellowship for journalism, and two Fulbright Scholarships.
Moore was named editor-in-chief of the Chicago Reader in October 2018, replacing Mark Konkol. She abruptly departed the Reader in March 2019.
Currently, she lives in Upstate New York with her cat, Captain America, writing, traveling, teaching, and dealing with the occasional cow and snake.

Nonfiction

Books

  • Selected Essays

Essays on American Culture