by admin | Sep 10, 2026
Shira Nayman explores how the Holocaust haunts contemporary life in her new short story collection: Awake in the Dark. Awake in the Dark is available for purchase at amazon.com Listen to Audio
by admin | Dec 5, 2025
The women in Awake in the Dark, Shira Nayman’s debut collection of stories, seek answers to their existential questions in their parents’ lives. An Orthodox mother learns that a treasured gift from her father was taken from a baby whose death he witnessed in a...
by admin | Oct 17, 2024
Evenstar Productions presentsAwake in the Dark based onShira Nayman’s bestselling bookwith music by Ben Moore December 5-8, 2024 at The Flea Theater Evenstar Productions presents Awake in the Dark based on Shira Nayman’s book with music by Ben Moore. December 5-7,...
by admin | Sep 10, 2021
Shira Nayman: Sometimes when we write, concepts we always took for granted are reconsidered. In that vein, do you think we have literary mothers—in other words, mothers we choose for ourselves vs. our real mothers? How do they influence us? How are they different...
by admin | Sep 10, 2021
It’s not always easy to identify the origin of a book, but I can precisely locate the birth of my forthcoming novel River. I was sitting with my ten-year-old daughter in the kitchen of our Brooklyn apartment, watching her draw. Her lips...
