Natalia Theodoridou is a Greek interactive fiction writer and scholar.^[1] He was the fiction editor at sub-Q, an interactive fiction magazine. The magazine entered indefinite hiatus starting August of 2020.^[2] He also has a PhD in Religious Studies to Media & Cultural Studies and has graduated from Clarion West Writers Workshop, an intensive writing program.^[3]

Theodoridou's "The Birding: A Fairy Tale", published in Strange Horizons, was the winner of the 2018 World Fantasy Award for short fiction works.^[4] It is about a plague that turns nearly everyone in the world into birds. The work was also turned into a podcast format.^[5]

• 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