About The Author

Naama Goldstein is a Boston-based author raised in Israel. A collection of her stories, The Place will Comfort You, was published by Scribner and recognized as finalist in the Reform Judaism Prize for Jewish Fiction.

 

Her work has been published in a variety of journals and anthologies, including Saul Bellow’s News from the Republic of Letters, Arts & Letters, Scribner’s Best of the Fiction Workshops, Lilith Magazine, Pakn Treger, Crab Orchard Review, and Tablet.

 

Naama holds an MFA in fiction writing from Vermont College. She is a Pushcart Prize nominee, the winner of a Glimmer Train Fiction Open, and served as writer in residence at Saint Louis University's Jean Drahmann program. Her novel, The Truancy Bible, is forthcoming.