![Natalie, a Black woman with dark loose curls, stands outside with greenery in the background. She is wearing a sleeveless dress with a black scoop neck and aqua-blue drop earrings. She has a slight smile and is wearing purple-reddish lip gloss.](https://usa-p-36588810407f.b-cdn.net/11a773f5-5ca7-4faa-b0f1-9b6c403739c5/moore-natalie-y-headshot-scaled.jpg?crop=2227%2C2226%2C0%2C15&width=1000)
Photo by Katherine Nagasawa.
Natalie Y. Moore is the author of The South Side: A Portrait of Chicago and American Segregation, winner of 2016 best nonfiction awards from the Chicago Review of Books and Buzzfeed. Moore is coauthor of The Almighty Black P Stone Nation: The Rise, Fall, and Resurgence of an American Gang and Deconstructing Tyrone: A New Look at Black Masculinity in the Hip-Hop Generation. She contributed to Southside, a 2018 collection of stories about the criminal justice system in Chicago, published by the Marshall Project in collaboration with Amazon Original Stories. For the 100th anniversary of the 1919 Chicago riots, she cowrote a thirty-minute audio drama with Make-Believe Association. Her play The Billboard, about abortion and reproductive justice, will be produced by 16th Street Theater in Berwyn, IL, in fall of 2021 and published by Haymarket Books.
She is a reporter at WBEZ, Chicago’s NPR member station. Her enterprise reporting tackles race, housing, economic development, and food injustice. She writes a monthly column for the Chicago Sun-Times. Her work has been published in a range of publications, including Essence, Ebony, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Guardian. She is the 2017 recipient of the Chicago Library Foundation’s 21st Century Award. In 2010, she received the Studs Terkel Community Media Award for reporting on Chicago’s diverse neighborhoods. In 2009, Moore was a fellow at Columbia College’s Ellen Stone Belic Institute for the Study of Women and Gender in the Arts and Media, which allowed her to take a reporting trip to Libya.
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This artist page was last updated on: 09.03.2024