Natalia Theodoridou

Natalia Theodoridou is a Greek interactive fiction writer and scholar. He was the fiction editor at sub-Q, an interactive fiction magazine. The magazine entered indefinite hiatus starting August of 2020. He has a PhD in Media & Cultural Studies and graduated from the Clarion West Writers Workshop.

Theodoridou's "The Birding: A Fairy Tale", published in Strange Horizons, was the winner of the 2018 World Fantasy Award for short fiction works. It is about a plague that turns nearly everyone in the world into birds. The work was also adapted into podcast format.

As of 2024, as an interactive fiction writer they have twice been nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Game Writing.

Awards

 * Fulbright Scholar, 2008–10
 * Greek Scientific Society Award, 2003
 * MA Studentship (Drama & Theatre Department, Royal Holloway University of London), 2007–2008
 * Ouseley Memorial Scholarship, 2011–13
 * Scholarship by the Greek State Scholarship Foundation (IKY) for undergraduate studies, 2002–2005
 * SOAS Research Scholarship 2010–13, & Additional Award for Fieldwork, 2010

Poetry

 * "Blackmare" (2013)
 * "Pretty Half-Breeds, for Free" (2014)
 * "Ex Machina" (2014)
 * "Philomela in Seven Movements" (2015)
 * "An Inventory of Ghosts" (2015)

Short fiction
Select short stories that have been nominated for awards