Shelly Oria’s fiction has appeared in McSweeney’s, Quarterly West, and cream city review, among other publications.
Shelly was awarded the 2008 Indiana Review Fiction Prize for her story “New York 1, Tel Aviv 0,” and is currently completing her first story collection, which carries the same title.
She curates the series Sweet! Actors Reading Writers in New York’s East Village, teaches fiction at the Gotham Writers’ Workshop, and is the co-producer of Literary Death Match Tel Aviv.
Oria was born in Los Angeles and grew up in Israel. She earned her MFA in creative writing from Sarah Lawrence College.
