Education
Leora Skolkin-Smith graduated (Bachelor and Master of Fine Arts) from Sarah Lawrence College.
Leora Skolkin-Smith graduated (Bachelor and Master of Fine Arts) from Sarah Lawrence College.
Her first novel,, was selected and edited by Grace Paley for Glad Day Books. () is set in a pre-1967 Israel, during the Cold War. EDGES was also a National Women Studies Association Conference Selection and a Jewish Book Council Selection, 2005.
A panelist, on "Israel in Fiction" at the Miami International Book Fair, 2006
A panelist, on "War in Writing", at the Virginia Festival of the Book, 2006
Published in The Washington Post
Published in The Quarterly Conversation
Published in The Hamilton Stone Review
Novel, Edges, developed into Feature Film by Triboro Pictures, retitled "The Fragile Mistress"
Novel, Hystera,"
Contributing Editor to Readysteadybook.com
Cantaraville Three.
Characters are drawn from Israel’s long-forgotten past, members of the 1940s Haganah and Jewish underground who find themselves displaced amidst the chaotic and complex tensions of an Israel just beginning to modernize and expand. A member of the The National Book Critics Circle.