Alia Luria

Creative Nonfiction Writer

Tampa, FL
Florida US
Email: 
alia@gerioshimasu.com
Website: 
www.alialuria.com
RSS feed: 
www.stillnotarobot.com/feed

Author's Bio

ALIA LURIA's debut novel, Compendium, was published in 2015 and garnered several accolades, including the National Indie Excellence Award in Fantasy and the Reader's Favorite Silver Medal in Fantasy. It was also a finalist for the Independent Author Network Book of the Year Award in three categories, including First Novel. The sequel, Ocularum, is forthcoming. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Fairleigh Dickinson University. Her personal essay, "You Might Eat Organic, but You're Full of Baloney," was a creative nonfiction finalist for the Malahat Review Open Season Awards in 2018 and was published by Northwest Review. Luria's work has also appeared in Toho Journal and Wingless Dreamer.

New from ALIA is Geri o Shimasu: Adventures of a Baka Gaijin, where ALIA takes readers on a candid, humorous journey through 2008 Japan as seen through the lens of an outsider.

Education: 
Fairleigh Dickinson University MFA

Publications & Prizes

Book:
Geri o Shimasu (Unsolicited Press, 2025)
Prizes won: 

London Book Festival, General Nonfiction Winner, 2025

Firebird Book Award, Second Place, Humor, Q1 2025

Atlas of Stories Book Award, March 19, 2025

Spotlyts Story Award, March 21, 2025

Great Southeast Book Festival, Memoir Winner, 2025

Literary Titan Silver Award, Memoir, 2025

eLit Gold Medal, Science Fiction/Fantasy, 2016

IPBA Benjamin Franklin Silver award, 2016

National Indie Excellence Award, Fantasy, 2015 

Readers' Favorite Silver Medal, Fanrasy - General, 2015

Personal Favorites

Favorite authors: 
Margaret Atwood, Ursula K. LeGuin, Haruki Miramar, David Sedaris, Tana French
What I'm reading now: 
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marques

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Identifies as: 
Italian American
Prefers to work with: 
Any
Fluent in: 
English
Born in: 
Brooklyn, NY
New York
Raised in: 
Tampa, FL
Florida
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Last update: Apr 18, 2025