Shelly Oria

Shelly Oria is an Israeli-American author.[1]

Her collection of short stories, New York 1, Tel Aviv 0, was published by FSG and Random House Canada in November 2014.[2] Her work has been featured in several publications, including The Paris Review and McSweeney's.[3] Oria received attention about the book from The New York Times[4][5], Kirkus Review[6], and other outlets. New York 1, Tel Aviv 0 was translated into Hebrew and published in Israel by Keter Books in August 2015.

Personal life and achievements

Oria was born in Los Angeles, California, but grew up in Israel.[3] She features queer characters in her stories.[7] She received the Indiana Review Fiction Prize, a Sozopol Fiction Seminars Fellowship in Bulgaria[8] and was an artist in residence with the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council between 2014 and 2015.[2] As of March 16, 2015, Oria was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award[9] and a nominee for the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction.[10] She is also a MacDowell Colony fellow.[2]

Education

Oria received a Master of Fine Arts from Sarah Lawrence College in 2007.[11] She began writing in fiction in English, her second language, at the college in 2006.[7] Oria studied how to be a life and creativity coach while in Israel between 2008 and 2009 in the Alder Institute and with Julia Cameron in 2004.[12]

Current life

Oria lives in Brooklyn, New York. In September 2015, she told Israeli newspaper Yediot Ahronot that she's currently at work on several projects, including a play trilogy, a feature film, and a novel.[13] She curates the Sweet! Actors Reading Writers series. It is currently on hiatus.[14]

She works at the Pratt Institute as a fiction teacher and a co-director for the Writer's Forum.[15] She's had her private practice as a life and creativity coach since 2009.[1]

Works

Books

Short stories

References

  1. 1 2 Taylor, Justin (2014-11-25). "The In-Between Space: An Interview with Shelly Oria". Paris Review Daily. Retrieved 2016-04-08.
  2. 1 2 3 "Shelly Oria | Lower Manhattan Cultural Council". lmcc.net. Retrieved 2015-05-05.
  3. 1 2 "Nationality Meets Sexuality Meets Reality - The Los Angeles Review...". The Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved 2016-04-08.
  4. 1 2 Langer, Adam (2014-12-08). "'New York 1, Tel Aviv 0,' Stories by Shelly Oria". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2016-04-08.
  5. ↑ Fry, Naomi (2015-01-30). "Katherine Heiny's 'Single, Carefree, Mellow,' and More". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2016-04-08.
  6. ↑ "NEW YORK 1, TEL AVIV 0 by Shelly Oria". Kirkus Reviews. Retrieved 2016-04-08.
  7. 1 2 "Shelly Oria On New York 1, Tel Aviv 0, Her Fave Queer Writers & Power of Lit | Out Magazine". Retrieved 2015-05-05.
  8. ↑ "Wave Motion: An Interview with Shelly Oria". Fiction Writers Review. Retrieved 2016-04-08.
  9. ↑ "Shelly Oria: On Her New Collection 'New York 1, Tel Aviv 0,' Her Favorite Queer Writers, and the Power of Literature". Lambda Literary. Retrieved 2016-04-08.
  10. ↑ NYFA.org. "NYFA Presents: Three Decades of Writing Fellows with Gregory Pardlo, Deanna Fei, Shelly Oria, and Teddy Wayne". NYFA.org - NYFA Current. Retrieved 2016-04-08.
  11. ↑ "Shelly Oria MFA '07 discusses College's impact on her career in Out Magazine | Sarah Lawrence College". www.sarahlawrence.edu. Retrieved 2015-05-05.
  12. ↑ "Life & Creativity Coaching". Shelly Oria | Author. Retrieved 2015-05-05.
  13. ↑ "First Class [article in Hebrew]" (PDF). Yediot Ahronot.
  14. ↑ "Sweet!". Sweet!. Retrieved 2015-05-05.
  15. ↑ humans.txt. "Shelly Oria : Our Authors". www.fsgoriginals.com. Retrieved 2016-04-08.
  16. ↑ Maya Sela. "An Israeli-American writer's tale of two cities".

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