Anne Elizabeth Moore

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Anne Elizabeth Moore
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Born1971 (age 5253)
Winner, South Dakota, U.S.
Alma materUniversity of Wisconsin–Eau Claire
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Known forIllustrations

Anne Elizabeth Moore (born 1971 in Winner, North Dakota) is an American cultural critic, artist, journalist, and editor. She is well known for her books Sweet Little Cunt (2018), Gentrifier: A Memoir (2021), and Body Horror: Capitalism, Fear, Misogyny, Jokes (2023). Her work mainly deals with the nature of power and women’s oppression, the housing crisis and gentrification, and women’s health.

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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 graduated high school to attend the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she got her start and trained as an artist to eventually exhibit work internationally.[ citation needed ] Her work has also been in the Whitney Biennial in New York and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago. [1] 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.[ citation needed ]

Moore was named editor-in-chief of the Chicago Reader in October 2018, replacing Mark Konkol. [2] She abruptly departed the Reader in March 2019. [3]

Currently, she lives in Upstate New York with her cat, Captain America, writing, traveling, teaching, and dealing with the occasional cow and snake.[ citation needed ]

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