Lynda Schor is an American writer known for her satirical feminist short fiction including the collections Appetites, True Love & Real Romance, and her latest, The Body Parts Shop. Her stories have appeared in many literary journals, magazines, and anthologies and have been nominated for many prizes including an O. Henry Award. She is the fiction editor of The Salt River Review and co-fiction editor of The Hamilton Stone Review. She lives in San Miguel de Allende in Mexico and in New York City.
She has won several grants, including two Maryland State Arts Council Grants, a Baltimore City Arts Grant, the Ann Tyler Prize for Fiction, an O’Henry, and received fellowships from the Ragdale Foundation, MacDowell, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and others. She has been a Writer-In-Residence at many colleges and universities, including Florida International University, Maryland Institute, College of Art, and Western Washington University. She taught in the Writing Program of The New School for 25 years.
