Anne Elizabeth Moore

Cultural critic and author

Anne Elizabeth Moore is a cultural critic and the author of Gentrifier: A Memoir (2021), an NPR best book, Unmarketable (2007), the Eisner Award-winning Sweet Little Cunt (2018), and other titles. She was the founding editor of the Best American Comics, and is the former editor of the Chicago Reader and Punk Planet. She has received support from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, the Ragdale Foundation, the Yaddo Corporation and the Fulbright Commission. She previously taught at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and was the Mackey Chair of Creative Writing at Beloit College. She lives in New York with her cat, Captain America. The Chicago Public Library Best Book of 2017 Body Horror: Capitalism, Fear, Misogyny, Jokes is being expanded for the pandemic and will be out from Feminist Press in 2023.