Alia Luria's debut novel, Compendium, was published in 2015 and garnered several accolades, including the National Indie Excellence Award in Fantasy, the eLit Gold Medal in Science Fiction / Fantasy, an IPBA Benjamin Franklin silver award, and the Reader's Favorite Silver Medal in Fantasy. It was also a finalist for the Independent Author Network Book of the Year Award in three categories, including First Novel. The sequel, Ocularum, is forthcoming. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Fairleigh Dickinson University. Her personal essay, "You Might Eat Organic, but You're Full of Baloney," was a creative nonfiction finalist for the Malahat Review Open Season Awards in 2018 and was published by Northwest Review. Luria's work has also appeared in Toho Journal and Wingless Dreamer. Releasing on August 12 by Unsolicited Press, is Geri o Shimasu: Adventures of a Baka Gaijin, where Luria takes readers on a candid, humorous journey through 2008 Japan as seen through the lens of an outsider.
