About Nora Gold

Dr. Nora Gold writes fiction, edits the new online journal Jewish Fiction .net, does academic, professional, and therapeutic work, and engages in community activism. Her first book, Marrow and Other Stories, won the Louis Lockshin Prize for Short Fiction and she has recently completed her first novel, Exile. Dr. Gold's academic career includes ten years on faculty at McMaster University's School of Social Work, and she has numerous scholarly publications and funded research grants to her credit (two of these from the prestigious Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada). Dr. Gold is currently an Associate Scholar at the Centre for Women's Studies at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto (OISE/UT), and an Associate Member of the Faculty of Social Work, University of Toronto. In addition to her academic work, Dr. Gold also has extensive professional experience in the field of social work and an independent consulting practice. In terms of community activism, she has been involved constantly over the past 30 years in community work and social action initiatives that reflect her various interests and commitments.

These three threads in Dr. Gold's life (literature, research/scholarship, and social change) are not, for her, discrete domains, but rather interwoven forms of self-expression. Whichever of these interest you the most, please click on the appropriate link for more details.