Shelly Oria
Born1978 (age 45–46)
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
OccupationAuthor
NationalityIsraeli American
EducationSarah 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]

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. 1 2 Taylor, Justin (November 25, 2014). "The In-Between Space: An Interview with Shelly Oria". Paris Review Daily. 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. Retrieved April 8, 2016.
  4. 1 2 "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. 1 2 3 "Shelly Oria | Lower Manhattan Cultural Council". lmcc.net. Retrieved May 5, 2015.
  7. 1 2 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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