Natalia Theodoridou (he/they) is a queer writer, editor, and game designer. He is the winner of Moniack Mhor’s 2022 Emerging Writer Award, the 2018 World Fantasy Award for Short Fiction, and a 2025 Nebula Award. He is also a Clarion West Graduate (class of 2018) and holds a PhD in Media & Cultural Studies from SOAS University of London.
Natalia’s debut novel, Sour Cherry, a Bluebeard retelling about toxic masculinity and cycles of abuse, is out now from Tin House/Zando (North America) and Wildfire (UK & Commonwealth).
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Follow the links to my short fiction here or take a look at my games. And find some recent interviews and essays at Big Echo, Electric Literature, LitHub, and Clarkesworld, and Sour Cherry reviews in The New York Times, Chicago Review of Books, Locus, Foreword Reviews, Associated Press, Shelf Awareness, and Goodreads!
Sour Cherry won the 2026 Locus Award for First Novel. It was also an Indie Next Pick for April by the American Booksellers Association, has received an honorable mention by the Crawford Award, and is a 2026 Nebula Award Finalist for Best Novel.
My next book will be published by Tin House in 2028! Anna Dreams of a Dead Revolutionary, about a filmmaker attempting to memorialize his time as a transgender political rebel in 1960s Greece. When people ask, I say it’s like Sour Cherry, except the haunted house is Greece and Bluebeard is fascism.
