Golda Fried (born 17 November 1972) is a Canadian/American

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Biography

Raised in

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, Canada and later graduated from

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, she received her undergraduate degree from

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in Film and Communications and her masters in English and Creative Writing from

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, both in

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. In 1993, she received third prize in poetry for the Student Writing Awards from ''

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''. While living in Montreal, she was involved in many spoken word events including the

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festival in 1994. Also, in 1994 she won The Chester Macnaghten Prize in Creative Writing from McGill University. Her fiction and poetry have appeared in ''Prism international, Broken Pencil, Blood and Aphorisms, Sub-terrain, Fish piss, Matrix, the Moosehead Anthology''. Her collection of stories, ''Darkness Then a Blown Kiss'', was published in 1998 and was listed as one of the ten best books of the year by ''NOW'' magazine. Her first novel, ''Nellcott Is My Darling'', also named Top 10 in 2005 by ''TimeOut Chicago'' and ''NOW'', was selected as a finalist for a 2005 Governor General's Awards for Fiction. In 1999, she moved to

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, where she currently resides as an assistant professor of

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and

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."The Write Stuff: Golda Fried."
McGill News, Mcgill University. 7 April 2007. 16 April 2010.

Work

Stories online

*"Icebox Night" *"And It All Went Tremola"

Non-fiction

*Open Letters Nov. 15th 2000

Short story

*''Darkness Then a Blown Kiss'' with illustrations by Vesna Mostovac and edited by Ken Sparling

Fiction

*NOVEL: ''Nellcott is my Darling'' edited by Alana Wilcox

Zines/ chapbooks

*"Hartley's Stories" by Conundrum press *"As If From The Mountains" by Conundrum press *''Kiss Machine Presents: Summer Ink: An Illustrated Book of Letters'' with illustrations by Vesna Mostovac *"Check the Floor" published by Alpha Beat Press

Poetry/spoken word

*''The Mundane and the Sun (or Advice From The Therapist)'' *CD compilation: ''Wired on Words'' *''Money''

Anthologized work

*''Shortfuse: The Global Anthology of Fusion Poetry'' (Ed. Todd Swift and Philip Norton) *''Poetry Nation: The North American Anthology of Fusion'' (Ed. Todd Swift and Regie Cabico) *"The Diner" in The Diner Anthology *"Crates of Stars" in ''Concrete Forest: The New Fiction of Urban Canada'' (Ed. Hal Niedzviecki) *"Lindsey" in ''Can't Lit: Fearless Fiction'' by Broken Pencil Magazine (Ed. Richard Rosenbaum) *"Cigarette Mapping"''Revival: Spoken Word from Lolapalooza 1994'' (Ed. Juliette Torrez and Nicole Blackman) *''The Portable Conundrum'' (Ed. Andy Brown) *''Burning Ambitions: The Anthology of Short Stories'' Edited by Debbie James

References

External links

Book review by Bert Archer of ''Nellcott is my Darling''Hour ReviewReview of ''Nellcott is my Darling'' in the McGill newsGolda Fried: Author Interview with M.E Woodwww.ukula.com - Article on Conundrum Press's Tenth Anniversary featuring Golda Fried
{{DEFAULTSORT:Fried, Golda 1972 births Living people 20th-century Canadian poets Canadian women poets Canadian women novelists American emigrants to Canada Place of birth missing (living people) McGill University alumni Concordia University alumni Writers from Greensboro, North Carolina Writers from Toronto 20th-century Canadian novelists 20th-century Canadian women writers