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 also has a PhD in Religious Studies to Media & Cultural Studies and has graduated from Clarion West Writers Workshop, an intensive writing program. 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 turned into a podcast format. 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 Bibliography 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 References Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Fantasy writers Speculative fiction writers Interactive fiction writers Greek editors Greek women editors Greek writers Greek women writers Greek women short story writers Greek women poets 21st-century short story writers 21st-century poets The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction people World Fantasy Award winners