Natalie Moore

Natalie Moore is an award-winning journalist, interdisciplinary writer and audio maker, best known for The South Side: A Portrait of Chicago and American Segregation, which won the 2016 Chicago Review of Books Award for Nonfiction and was named a BuzzFeed Best Nonfiction Book. Her acclaimed creative work includes The Billboard, a Jeff Award-winning play, audio dramas produced with Make Believe Association, and playwriting residencies with Chicago Dramatists, Chicago State University, and other arts organizations. A 2021 USA Fellow for Writing, Moore has also been recognized for her journalism, including being named a 2020 Richard C. Longworth Media Fellow by the Pulitzer Center and receiving the inaugural Lydia Diamond Playwriting Award in 2023.