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 ==