
books by shira
new book coming fall 2024
Shoreline, A memoir of wandering, friendship, and finding home, will be published by Guernica World Editions
Fall, 2024


River
River is the story of a fourteen-year-old girl who travels back in time, and across continents, encountering her maternal forbears when they were her age.

Awake in the Dark
Bold and deeply affecting, Awake in the Dark is a provocative and haunting work of fiction about who we are and how we are formed by history.

The Listener
Set against the backdrop of the insanity of war, The Listener explores the havoc historical trauma plays with the psyche, and illuminates the uncertain boundary between sanity and insanity.

A Mind of Winter
A Mind of Winter is a complex, page-turning, literary psychological thriller, which takes up a rich array of themes: the ways in which we choose our beliefs and build our lives and the ways in which circumstances inevitably shape personal identity and destiny.
upcoming event
Awake in the Dark: a theatre concert work
A new work adapted from Nayman’s collection of short stories, with music composed by Ben Moore. Two shows only, at the First Unitarian Universalist Society in downtown Brooklyn.
Performance dates on Thursday, December 14th, 7:00pm and Friday, December 15th, 7:00pm.
Tickets are $25, with a $40 family ticket. Live-streaming tickets are $15. All ticket sale proceeds will go to 1st UU.
Interweaving theater and chamber music, this piece explores one woman’s experience
of the impact of secrets and hidden pain born of collective, socio-historical trauma.







Meet Shira
Her work has appeared in numerous publications, including The Atlantic Monthly, The Georgia Review, New England Review, and Boulevard. She is the recipient of three year-long grants from the Australia Council for the Arts Literature Board, and is a recent MacDowell Fellow.