Leora Fridman is a writer whose work is concerned with issues of identity, care, dis/ability, and embodiment. She is author of Bound Up: On Kink, Power & Belonging, Static Palace, essays on chronic illness, art and politics, My Fault, selected by Eileen Myles for the Cleveland State University Press First Book Prize, and other books of prose, poetry and translation. Work appears or is forthcoming in Parapraxis, the Drift, Fence, Lithub, the New York Times, and the Believer, among others. Leora holds degrees with honors from the University of Massachusetts Amherst MFA Program for Poets and Writers and Brown University and has taught for institutions including Columbia University, Mount Holyoke College and Saint Lawrence University, in addition to in homes and retreat centers, and collaborates widely with artists, writers and community groups. She is a recipient of support and honors from many organizations including Fulbright, Creative Capital / Andy Warhol Foundation, Caldera, the National Endowment for the Arts and Vermont Studio Center.

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 at the Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts at The New School and Director of the New Jewish Culture Fellowship.

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