Natalia Theodoridou

Did You Know?

• As of 2025, he has been nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Game Writing four times, for Rent-A-Vice (2018), Vampire: The Masquerade - Sins of the Sires (2022), and Restore, Reflect, Retry (2024).
• His debut novel Sour Cherry won the Locus Award for Best First Novel in 2026.

Biography

Natalia Theodoridou, a Greek writer born around 1984, works as a novelist, interactive fiction author, and scholar. He previously served as fiction editor for sub-Q, an interactive fiction magazine that went on indefinite hiatus in August 2020. By 2025, he had earned four Nebula Award nominations for Best Game Writing. Theodoridou earned a BA in theatre from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, followed by an MRes in drama studies from Royal Holloway, University of London, and an MA in religious studies from the University of Chicago through the Fulbright Program. He holds a PhD in Media & Cultural Studies from SOAS University of London, which involved fifteen months of fieldwork in Indonesia studying Balinese dance. He is also a Clarion West Writers Workshop graduate. His short story "The Birding: A Fairy Tale," published in Strange Horizons, won the 2018 World Fantasy Award for short fiction; the story depicts a plague that transforms most people into birds and was adapted as a podcast. His debut novel, Sour Cherry, was released in April 2025 by Tin House in North America and Wildfire in the UK and Commonwealth.