Natalia Theodoridou

@natalia-theodoridou.com

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He/they. 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 World Fantasy, Locus, & Nebula Award winner. SOUR CHERRY out April 2025 from Tin House (US) & Wildfire (UK). Website: http://www.natalia-theodoridou.com

An image of thr Locus Award trophy next to the red cover of Natalia Theodoridou's debut novel, SOUR CHERRY, against a dark background.
A stack of red Sour Cherry copies, coming 9 April. SFWA Nebula Finalist logo on upper right corner.
Publishers Marketplace Deal Report dated 22 January 2026 that reads: "Author of SOUR CHERRY Natalia Theodoridou's ANNA DREAMS OF A DEAD REVOLUTIONARY, about a filmmaker attempting to memorialize his time as a transgender political rebel in 1960s Greece, cycling between screenplay, recollection, and present-day curation of letters and historical documents, pitched as a puzzle-box story of loyalty, memory, revolution, and the ghosts that haunt a nation, to Masie Cochran at Tin House Books, for publication in 2028, by Danya Kukafka at Trellis Literary Management (NA)."
'An extraordinary, hallucinatory accomplishment' - Karen Joy Fowler
Quote from POLYGON: A Most Anticipated Book of 2025 about SOUR CHERRY, a novel by Natalia Theodoridou: "Wholly original and really gorgeous."
Screenshot of Nebula Award Finalists - Game Writing: 1000xResist; Restore, Reflect, Retry; A Death in Hyperspace; Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree; The Ghost and the Golem; Pacific Drive; Slay the Princess - The Pristine Cut; Yazeba's Bed & Breakfast
Preorder campaign for Sour Cherry: 25% Off with Code CHERRY through Feb 14. Tertulia, The New Co-op Bookstore for Avid Readers.
Cover image of Sour Cherry, a debut novel by Natalia Theodoridou. A red dripping cherry from which a face emerges, against a thorny blue background.
Publishers Marketplace announcement that reads: Natalia Theodoridou's SOUR CHERRY, pitched as reimagining the story of Bluebeard--one of the earliest and most mythologized serial killers--twisting it into a modern examination of toxic masculinity, a feminist sermon, and a folktale for the twenty-first-century, to Masie Cochran at Tin House Books, for publication in winter 2025, by Danya Kukafka at Trellis Literary Management (NA). Rights also to Areen Ali at Wildfire (UK), by Susan Armstrong at C&W. Translation: amalecha@trellisliterary.com
The cover of Uncanny Magazine Issue 53, showing a femme person dressed in red and holding a bow, riding a blue-haired masc-presenting centaur also holding a bow and arrow. The two figures are kissing. The image includes a quote from "Love at the Event Horizon" by Natalia Theodoridou that reads: "I never thought I'd want to make a film about the Lost Countrymen and the ghosts that haunt their ship. It's been years since my brief time with them, but how could I forget them, the ghosts muttering to themselves about words long gone?"