Shelly Oria is the author of New York 1, Tel Aviv 0 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014), which earned nominations for a Lambda Literary Award and the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction, among other honors.
Oria's fiction has appeared in The Paris Review and elsewhere; has been translated to other languages; and has won a number of awards, including the Indiana Review Fiction Prize. Oria codirects the Writer’s Forum at the Pratt Institute and has a private practice as a life and creativity coach.
While at MacDowell in 2018, Oria focused on and made huge strides toward a first draft of her novel-in-progress. She also advanced some of her collaborative projects, such as a book of letters she's co-authoring with Hannah Assadi. Several months before her arrival at the Colony, Clean, a novella Oria co-authored with Alice Sola Kim, received two Lovie Awards from the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences.
