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Alia Luria

欧宝娱乐 Author

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in Brooklyn, NY, The United States

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Science Fiction, Fantasy, Memoir

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Alia Luria is an award-winning author. She was born in Brooklyn, New York, and grew up in Tampa, Florida.

She attended Berkeley Preparatory School in Tampa. She was a voracious reader from the time she was little, graduating quickly from books like Chronicles of Narnia and The Phantom Tollbooth to the likes of Stephen King. She began writing young, including poetry and short stories, some of which were published in her school's literary magazines.

Ms. Luria attended the University of Florida in 1995, but left school without her degree to become a full-time web designer and developer. After working for start-up companies and freelancing on projects, she returned to school and received her B.S. in Economics from the University of Central Flor Alia Luria is an award-winning author. She was born in Brooklyn, New York, and grew up in Tampa, Florida.

She attended Berkeley Preparatory School in Tampa. She was a voracious reader from the time she was little, graduating quickly from books like Chronicles of Narnia and The Phantom Tollbooth to the likes of Stephen King. She began writing young, including poetry and short stories, some of which were published in her school's literary magazines.

Ms. Luria attended the University of Florida in 1995, but left school without her degree to become a full-time web designer and developer. After working for start-up companies and freelancing on projects, she returned to school and received her B.S. in Economics from the University of Central Florida with honors in the major. Her undergraduate thesis was published by VDM Verlag and remains for sale.

From there, she attended the University of Florida (again) and received her Juris Doctor, cum laude, in 2009. She received an LL.M. in taxation from New York University in 2012. She received her MFA in Fiction from Fairleigh Dickinson University in 2018.

Compendium won the National Indie Excellence Award in Fantasy, the Readers' Favorite Silver Medal in Fantasy, an IPBA Benjamin Franklin Silver Award, an eLit Gold Medal, and was a finalist in the Independent Author Network Book of the Year in three categories.

Her essay "You Might Eat Organic, but You're Still Full of Baloney" was a finalist for the Malahat Review Open Season Awards in Creative Nonfiction.

Her first full-length book of personal essays. Geri o Shimasu: Adventures of a Baka Gaijin, about living abroad in Japan releases August 12, 2025 from Unsolicited Press. Preorder from Amazon, Bookshop.org, or Unsolicited Press. Geri o Shimasu has already received a Spotlyts Story Book Award, the Atlas of Stories Book Award, a Literary Titan Silver Award, a Firebird Book Award, and won the memoir category in the Great Southeast Book Festival and the general nonfiction category of the London Book Festival. Learn more about Geri o Shimasu or read early praise and author interviews at .

Alia currently lives in Tampa, Florida with her amazing partner and their managerie of pets.

You can visit her website at and her blog at .

Her next novel, Ocularum, is forthcoming in 2026, and her next collection of personal essays, Frivolous Bloodshed, is coming in 2027 from Unsolicited Press. ...more

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	Winners: A Compilation of Award-Winning Short Stories by Twenty-One Authors, Roberta Azzopardi, Alia Luria (欧宝娱乐 Author) (Foreword) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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