Shelly Oria

Shelly Oria (born 1978)[1] is an Israeli-American author, notable for short stories featuring queer characters.[2]

Personal life and achievements

Oria was born in Los Angeles, California, but grew up in Israel.[3] She features queer characters in her stories.[4] She received the Indiana Review Fiction Prize, a Sozopol Fiction Seminars Fellowship in Bulgaria[5] and was an artist in residence with the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council between 2014 and 2015.[6]

Her collection of short stories, New York 1, Tel Aviv 0, was published by FSG and Random House Canada in November 2014.[6] 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[7][8], Kirkus Review[9], and other outlets. New York 1, Tel Aviv 0 was translated into Hebrew and published in Israel by Keter Books in August 2015.

Higher Education

Oria received a Master of Fine Arts from Sarah Lawrence College in 2007.[10] She began writing in fiction in English, her second language, at the college in 2006.[4] 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.[11]

Awards

As of March 16, 2015, Oria was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award[12] and a nominee for the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction.[13] She is also a MacDowell Colony fellow.[6]

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.[14] She curates the Sweet! Actors Reading Writers series. It is currently on hiatus.[15]

She works at the Pratt Institute as a fiction teacher and a co-director for the Writer's Forum.[16] She's had her private practice as a life and creativity coach since 2009.[2]

Works

Books
  • New York 1, Tel Aviv 0: Stories. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. November 4, 2014. ISBN 978-0-374-71175-7.[7][17]

Short stories

References
  1. "Oria, Shelly, 1978-". id.loc.gov. Retrieved July 13, 2021.
  2. Taylor, Justin (November 25, 2014). "The In-Between Space: An Interview with Shelly Oria". Paris Review Daily. Retrieved April 8, 2016.
  3. "Nationality Meets Sexuality Meets Reality - The Los Angeles Review..." The Los Angeles Review of Books. February 7, 2015. Retrieved April 8, 2016.
  4. "Shelly Oria On New York 1, Tel Aviv 0, Her Fave Queer Writers & Power of Lit | Out Magazine". January 16, 2015. Retrieved May 5, 2015.
  5. "Wave Motion: An Interview with Shelly Oria". Fiction Writers Review. Retrieved April 8, 2016.
  6. "Shelly Oria | Lower Manhattan Cultural Council". lmcc.net. Retrieved May 5, 2015.
  7. Langer, Adam (December 8, 2014). "'New York 1, Tel Aviv 0,' Stories by Shelly Oria". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved April 8, 2016.
  8. Fry, Naomi (January 30, 2015). "Katherine Heiny's 'Single, Carefree, Mellow,' and More". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved April 8, 2016.
  9. "NEW YORK 1, TEL AVIV 0 by Shelly Oria". Kirkus Reviews. Retrieved April 8, 2016.
  10. "Shelly Oria MFA '07 discusses College's impact on her career in Out Magazine | Sarah Lawrence College". www.sarahlawrence.edu. Retrieved May 5, 2015.
  11. "Life & Creativity Coaching". Shelly Oria | Author. Retrieved May 5, 2015.
  12. "Shelly Oria: On Her New Collection 'New York 1, Tel Aviv 0,' Her Favorite Queer Writers, and the Power of Literature". Lambda Literary. January 4, 2015. Retrieved April 8, 2016.
  13. NYFA.org (March 18, 2016). "NYFA Presents: Three Decades of Writing Fellows with Gregory Pardlo, Deanna Fei, Shelly Oria, and Teddy Wayne". NYFA.org - NYFA Current. Retrieved April 8, 2016.
  14. "First Class [article in Hebrew]" (PDF). Yediot Ahronot.
  15. "Sweet!". Sweet!. Retrieved May 5, 2015.
  16. humans.txt. "Shelly Oria : Our Authors". www.fsgoriginals.com. Retrieved April 8, 2016.
  17. Maya Sela. "An Israeli-American writer's tale of two cities".
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