About

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Leora Fridman is a writer whose work is concerned with issues of identity, care, ability, and embodiment. She is author of Static Palace, a collection of essays about chronic illness, art and politics (punctum books 2022), My Fault, selected by Eileen Myles for the Cleveland State University Press First Book Prize, and other books of prose, poetry and translation. Her work appears or is forthcoming in Fence, the Millions, the New York Times, the Rumpus, and the Believer, among others. Forthcoming books include Bound Up, a book of nonfiction on kink, power and belonging, At Night I’ll Beg, a book-length essay on insomnia, and Goldenrod, a novel. Leora holds degrees with honors from the University of Massachusetts Amherst MFA Program for Poets and Writers and Brown University. She has taught for institutions including Columbia University, Mount Holyoke College and Saint Lawrence University, in addition to in homes and retreat centers, and she collaborates widely with artists, writers and community groups. She is a recipient of support and honors from organizations including Fulbright, Creative Capital / Andy Warhol Foundation, Caldera, the National Endowment for the Arts, Vermont Studio Center, and the Center for Cultural Innovation.

In addition to writing and teaching, Leora curates exhibitions of contemporary art and performance, and consults with artists and creative organizations. She is currently Faculty Associate in the Narrative Medicine program at Columbia University, faculty at the Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts at the New School, and Director of Public Programs at the Center for New Jewish Culture.

Leora is represented by Tess Weitzner at Frances Goldin Literary Agency.