At the age of 25, Shelly Oria decided to leave Israel and move to New York. When she decided to enroll in a creative writing program at Sarah Lawrence College, she hadn't considered what it would mean to have to write in English.
At first, she was writing in Hebrew and translating everything into English. Finally, she took the leap into writing in English. She joins host Ilene Prusher in the studio to discuss her first collection of short stories, New York 1, Tel Aviv 0, which has been received to critical acclaim.
