Anne Elizabeth Moore

Anne Elizabeth Moore (born 1971 in Winner, South Dakota) 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 (2018), about Julie Doucet, and Gentrifier: A Memoir (2021). 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 Gift Shop)” (2008) and “17 Theses on the Edge” (2010) 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 City and the Museum of Contemporary Art 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

(Feminist Press edition 2023, )

Selected Essays

Essays on American Culture On Leaving the Birthplace of Standard Time, The Believer (an excerpt from Body Horror)

Knocked Out Loaded, The New Inquiry

Comics, Books, Film & Art The Destabilizing Desire of Julie Doucet, Paris Review (an excerpt from Sweet Little Cunt)

The Never-ending Story, The Baffler

Silenced without Proof: On Soft Censorship, PEN America

Our Pol Pot: A Film from Cambodia, n+1

Media and Politics The Vertically Integrated Rape Joke, The Baffler

Women & Labor Here’s why it matters when a human rights crusader builds her advocacy on lies, Salon

Degendering Value, Jacobin

Awards 2019 Eisner Award for Best Academic/Scholarly Work for Sweet Little Cunt: The Graphic Work of Julie Doucet (Uncivilized Books)