Shelly Oria

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Shelly Oria
Born1978 (age 45–46)
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
OccupationAuthor
NationalityIsraeli American
Education Sarah Lawrence College (MFA)
Website
www.shellyoria.com

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

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Biography

Oria was born in Los Angeles, California, but grew up in Israel. [3]

Oria received a Master of Fine Arts from Sarah Lawrence College in 2007. [4] She began writing in fiction in English, her second language, at the college in 2006. She features queer characters in her stories. [5] 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. [6]

She received the Indiana Review Fiction Prize, a Sozopol Fiction Seminars Fellowship in Bulgaria [7] and was an artist in residence with the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council between 2014 and 2015. [8]

Her collection of short stories, New York 1, Tel Aviv 0, was published by FSG and Random House Canada in November 2014. [8] 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 , [9] [10] Kirkus Review , [11] 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

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. [12] She curates the Sweet! Actors Reading Writers series. It is currently on hiatus. [13]

She works at the Pratt Institute as a fiction teacher and a co-director for the Writer's Forum. [14] She's had her private practice as a life and creativity coach since 2009. [2]

Awards

As of March 16, 2015, Oria was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction [15] and a nominee for the Edmund White Award. [16] She is also a MacDowell Colony fellow. [8]

Works

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  2. 1 2 Taylor, Justin (November 25, 2014). "The In-Between Space: An Interview with Shelly Oria". Paris Review Daily. Archived from the original on April 14, 2015. Retrieved April 8, 2016.
  3. 1 2 "Nationality Meets Sexuality Meets Reality - The Los Angeles Review..." The Los Angeles Review of Books. February 7, 2015. Archived from the original on April 24, 2015. Retrieved April 8, 2016.
  4. ↑ "Shelly Oria MFA '07 discusses College's impact on her career in Out Magazine | Sarah Lawrence College". www.sarahlawrence.edu. Archived from the original on March 3, 2016. Retrieved May 5, 2015.
  5. ↑ "Shelly Oria On New York 1, Tel Aviv 0, Her Fave Queer Writers & Power of Lit | Out Magazine". January 16, 2015. Archived from the original on May 18, 2015. Retrieved May 5, 2015.
  6. ↑ "Life & Creativity Coaching". Shelly Oria | Author. Archived from the original on May 18, 2015. Retrieved May 5, 2015.
  7. ↑ "Wave Motion: An Interview with Shelly Oria". Fiction Writers Review. Archived from the original on February 20, 2015. Retrieved April 8, 2016.
  8. 1 2 3 "Shelly Oria | Lower Manhattan Cultural Council". lmcc.net. Archived from the original on May 18, 2015. Retrieved May 5, 2015.
  9. 1 2 Langer, Adam (December 8, 2014). "'New York 1, Tel Aviv 0,' Stories by Shelly Oria". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331. Archived from the original on March 14, 2016. Retrieved April 8, 2016.
  10. ↑ Fry, Naomi (January 30, 2015). "Katherine Heiny's 'Single, Carefree, Mellow,' and More". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331. Archived from the original on July 11, 2015. Retrieved April 8, 2016.
  11. ↑ "NEW YORK 1, TEL AVIV 0 by Shelly Oria". Kirkus Reviews. Archived from the original on April 18, 2016. Retrieved April 8, 2016.
  12. ↑ "First Class [article in Hebrew]" (PDF). Yediot Ahronot. Archived (PDF) from the original on June 7, 2016. Retrieved April 8, 2016.
  13. ↑ "Sweet!". Sweet!. Retrieved May 5, 2015.
  14. ↑ humans.txt. "Shelly Oria : Our Authors". www.fsgoriginals.com. Archived from the original on January 9, 2015. Retrieved April 8, 2016.
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  16. ↑ 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. Archived from the original on April 18, 2016. Retrieved April 8, 2016.
  17. ↑ Sela, Maya (December 2, 2014). "An Israeli-American Writer's Tale of Two Cities". Haaretz. Retrieved October 15, 2024.
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