Shelly Oria is the author of New York 1, Tel Aviv 0 (FSG & Random House Canada, 2014), which earned nominations for a Lambda Literary Award and the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction, among other honors. Her fiction has appeared in The Paris Review among numerous other places and has won a number of awards, including the Indiana Review Fiction Prize. Most recently, Shelly has co-authored a digital novella, CLEAN, commissioned by WeTransfer and McSweeney's. She lives in Brooklyn, where so co-directs the Writer's Forum at the Pratt Institute and has a private practice as a life & creativity coach. www.shellyoria.com