Dr. Nora Gold is the prize-winning author of six books, as well as an editor and a former professor. Her first book, Marrow and Other Stories, won a Vine Canadian Jewish Book Award and was enthusiastically received, including by Alice Munro. Her second book, the novel Fields of Exile, won the inaugural Canadian Jewish Literary Award for best novel, and was acclaimed by Ruth Wisse and Irwin Cotler. Her novel The Dead Man received glowing reviews, including in the Los Angeles Review of Books, and won a Canada Council for the Arts translation grant and was published in Hebrew. Her fourth book, 18: Jewish Stories Translated from 18 Languages, an anthology of translated works, was praised by Publishers Weekly, Cynthia Ozick, and Dara Horn; was a finalist for a Foreword Indies Award; and was featured in the New York Times Wirecutter in 2023, 2024, and 2025 as a recommended Chanukah gift. Gold’s fifth book, In Sickness and In Health/Yom Kippur in a Gym  (two novellas) received international acclaim, and was one of the five books that Hadassah Magazine chose to feature in Fall 2025. On May 1, 2026, Gold’s sixth book was published: the novella, Doubles. And on the same date, her first book, Marrow and Other Stories (originally published in 1998), came out for the first time in digital format.

Dr. Gold is the founder and editor-in-chief of the prestigious online literary journal Jewish Fiction  (www.jewishfiction.com), the only English-language journal (print or online) devoted exclusively to publishing Jewish fiction. In its first 16 years, it has published 650 works (never before published in English) that were either written in English or translated into English from 22 languages.

Dr. Gold has a PhD from University of Toronto and, while a tenured professor, she conducted research in the fields of disability, child welfare, sexism, and antisemitism. After leaving her academic position to write fiction fulltime, she spent six years as the Writer-in-Residence at the Centre for Women’s Studies in Education at OISE/University of Toronto, where she created and coordinated the Wonderful Women Writers reading series, which she later hosted at the Toronto Public Library. Dr. Gold has received considerable media attention both for her books and her journal, and has appeared as a featured guest on podcasts and videocasts based in India, Australia, the United States, and Canada. She is active on social media, including Instagram and Facebook, and on LinkedIn she has over 100,000 followers.A