Shelly Oria Explained

Shelly Oria
Birth Place:Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Occupation:Author
Nationality:Israeli American
Education:Sarah Lawrence College (MFA)

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

Biography

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

Oria received a Master of Fine Arts from Sarah Lawrence College in 2007.[3] She began writing in fiction in English, her second language, at the college in 2006. She features queer characters in her stories.[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.[5]

She received the Indiana Review Fiction Prize, a Sozopol Fiction Seminars Fellowship in Bulgaria[6] and was an artist in residence with the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council between 2014 and 2015.

Her collection of short stories, New York 1, Tel Aviv 0, was published by FSG and Random House Canada in November 2014.[7] Her work has been featured in several publications, including The Paris Review and McSweeney's.[8] 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.

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.

Works

Books

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Oria, Shelly, 1978- . id.loc.gov . July 13, 2021 . July 13, 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210713235240/https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2014043121.html . live .
  2. Web site: The In-Between Space: An Interview with Shelly Oria. Taylor. Justin. 2014-11-25. Paris Review Daily. 2016-04-08. April 14, 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150414202117/http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2014/11/25/the-in-between-space-an-interview-with-shelly-oria/. live.
  3. Web site: Shelly Oria MFA '07 discusses College's impact on her career in Out Magazine Sarah Lawrence College . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160303230938/https://www.sarahlawrence.edu/news-events/news/2015-02-03-shelly-oria-mfa-07-discusses-colleges-impact-on-her-career-in-out-magazine-itn.html . March 3, 2016 . 2015-05-05 . www.sarahlawrence.edu.
  4. Web site: Shelly Oria On New York 1, Tel Aviv 0, Her Fave Queer Writers & Power of Lit Out Magazine. January 16, 2015. 2015-05-05. May 18, 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150518073533/http://www.out.com/entertainment/art-books/2015/01/16/shelly-oria-new-york-1-tel-aviv-0-her-fave-queer-writers-power-li. live.
  5. Web site: Life & Creativity Coaching . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20150518114729/http://www.shellyoria.com/life-creativity-coaching/ . May 18, 2015 . 2015-05-05 . Shelly Oria Author.
  6. Web site: Wave Motion: An Interview with Shelly Oria. Fiction Writers Review. 2016-04-08. February 20, 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150220034648/http://fictionwritersreview.com/interview/wave-motion-an-interview-with-shelly-oria/. live.
  7. Web site: Shelly Oria Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. lmcc.net. 2015-05-05. May 18, 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150518083551/http://lmcc.net/person/shelly-oria/. dead.
  8. Web site: Nationality Meets Sexuality Meets Reality - The Los Angeles Review.... The Los Angeles Review of Books. February 7, 2015. en-US. 2016-04-08. April 24, 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150424024151/http://lareviewofbooks.org/interview/nationality-meets-sexuality-meets-reality/. live.
  9. News: 'New York 1, Tel Aviv 0,' Stories by Shelly Oria. Langer. Adam. 2014-12-08. The New York Times. 0362-4331. 2016-04-08. March 14, 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160314132445/http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/09/books/new-york-1-tel-aviv-0-stories-by-shelly-oria.html. live.
  10. News: Katherine Heiny's 'Single, Carefree, Mellow,' and More. Fry. Naomi. 2015-01-30. The New York Times. 0362-4331. 2016-04-08. July 11, 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150711074653/http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/01/books/review/katherine-heinys-single-carefree-mellow-and-more.html?. live.
  11. Web site: NEW YORK 1, TEL AVIV 0 by Shelly Oria. Kirkus Reviews. en-us. 2016-04-08. April 18, 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160418025226/https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/shelly-oria/new-york-1-tel-aviv-0/. live.
  12. News: First Class [article in Hebrew] ]. live . https://web.archive.org/web/20160607115324/http://static1.squarespace.com/static/535029eee4b013cdd4ce8239/t/56b937f52b8dde248d6fa6a6/1454979061595/YediotAhronot_Interview.pdf . June 7, 2016 . April 8, 2016 . Yediot Ahronot.
  13. Web site: Sweet! . 2015-05-05 . Sweet!.
  14. Web site: humans.txt . Shelly Oria : Our Authors . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150109190150/http://www.fsgoriginals.com/authors/bio/shelly-oria . January 9, 2015 . 2016-04-08 . www.fsgoriginals.com.
  15. Web site: Shelly Oria: On Her New Collection 'New York 1, Tel Aviv 0,' Her Favorite Queer Writers, and the Power of Literature. 2016-04-08. Lambda Literary. January 4, 2015. en-US. March 5, 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160305003334/http://www.lambdaliterary.org/features/01/03/shelly-oria-on-her-new-collection-new-york-1-tel-aviv-0-her-favorite-queer-writers-and-the-power-of-literature/. live.
  16. Web site: NYFA.org. NYFA Presents: Three Decades of Writing Fellows with Gregory Pardlo, Deanna Fei, Shelly Oria, and Teddy Wayne. 2016-04-08. NYFA.org - NYFA Current. March 18, 2016. April 18, 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160418092347/http://current.nyfa.org/post/141277259233/nyfa-presents-three-decades-of-writing-fellows. live.
  17. News: Sela . Maya . An Israeli-American Writer's Tale of Two Cities . 15 October 2024 . Haaretz . 2 December 2014.
  18. News: Yxta Maya Murray . Our Memories, Ourselves: On "Indelible in the Hippocampus: Writings from the Me Too Movement" . 15 October 2024 . Los Angeles Review of Books . 13 September 2019.
  19. News: Bader . Eleanor J. . Complications of the Body: A Conversation with Shelly Oria . 15 October 2024 . Los Angeles Review of Books . 11 June 2022.

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