Natalia Theodoridou

Natalia Theodoridou (born c. 1984) is a Greek novelist, interactive fiction writer, and scholar. He was the fiction editor at sub-Q, an interactive fiction magazine. The magazine entered indefinite hiatus starting August 2020. He has a PhD in Media & Cultural Studies and graduated from the Clarion West Writers Workshop.

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 adapted into podcast format.

As of 2025, as an interactive fiction writer he has been nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Game Writing four times.

Theodoridou's debut novel, Sour Cherry, came out in April 2025 from Tin House (North America) and Wildfire (UK & Commonwealth).