Shelly Oria | |
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Born | 1978 (age 45–46) Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
Occupation | Author |
Nationality | Israeli American |
Education | Sarah Lawrence College (MFA) |
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Shelly Oria (born 1978) [1] is an Israeli-American author, notable for short stories featuring queer characters. [2]
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.
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]
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]
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]
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