HYSTERA, Leora Skolkin-Smith's second novel, has was published by Lou Aronica, Fiction Studio Books. It won this year's 2012 Blobal E-Books Award in Muliticulural Fiction and the 2012 USA Book Award in Fiction (ebooks). It was also a Finalist in both the National Indie Excellence Awards and The International Book Awards. Excerpts from HYSTERA were first published by Persea Books, and recently appeared in The Hamilton Stone Review. Recent publications include a piece from THE FRAGILE MISTRESS, which appeared in Guernica Magazine in 2010. Leora Skolkin-Smith’s first published novel, EDGES was edited and published by the late Grace Paley for Ms. Paley's own imprint at Glad Day books. EDGES was nominated for the 2006 PEN/Faulkner Award by Grace Paley. Recently, her novels were selected by Princeton University as part of a series on women writers whose background is from the Middle East and whose work is personal, reflecting the current diaspora. The Princeton Series in funded by The National Endowment of the Humanities and called: "The Fertile Crescent Moon Series."  THE FRAGILE MISTRESS, a feature film based on EDGES, is currently in pre-production, scheduled to begin shooting on location in Jerusalem, Jordan, and New York, produced by Triboro Pictures, Michael Gunther, producer. http://www.thefragilemistress.com Articles by Leora Skolkin-Smith have appeared in The Washington Post, Psychology Today, The National Book Critic’s Circle, “Critical Mass”, “Readysteadybook.com”, and The Quarterly Review

Winner of the 2012 USA Book Award and the 2012 Global E-Books Award. "Edges" was Selected by The Faulkner Foundation. Recently, work was chosen by Princeton and Rutgers University as part of their series called "Writers from Fertile Crescent Moon"