Alia Luria
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Alia Luria

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Alia Luria is an award-winning author born in Brooklyn, New York. She attended Berkeley Preparatory School in Tampa. She was a voracious reader from the time she was little, graduating quickly from books like Chronicles of Narnia and The Phantom Tollbooth to the likes of Stephen King. She began writing young, including poetry and short stories, some of which were published in her school's literary magazines. Ms. Luria attended the University of Florida in 1995, but left school without her degree to become a full-time web designer and developer. After working for start-up companies and freelancing on projects, she returned to school and received her B.S. in Economics from the University of Central Florida with honors in the major. Her undergraduate thesis was published by VDM Verlag and remains for sale. From there, she attended the University of Florida (again) and received her Juris Doctor, cum laude, in 2009. She received an LL.M. in taxation from New York University in 2012. She received her MFA in Fiction from Fairleigh Dickinson University in 2018. Her debut novel, Compendium, was published in 2015 and garnered several accolades, including the National Indie Excellence Award in Fantasy and the Reader's Favorite Silver Medal in Fantasy. It was also an eLit Gold Medalist, an IPBA Benjamin Franklin Silver Award winner, and a finalist for the Independent Author Network Book of the Year Award in three categories, including First Novel. The sequel, Ocularum, is forthcoming. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Fairleigh Dickinson University. Her personal essay, "You Might Eat Organic, but You're Full of Baloney," was a creative nonfiction finalist for the Malahat Review Open Season Awards in 2018 and was published by Northwest Review. Luria's work has also appeared in Toho Journal, Frivolous Comma, and Wingless Dreamer. New from Alia Luria is Geri o Shimasu: Adventures of a Baka Gaijin, where Luria takes readers on a candid, humorous journey through 2008 Japan as seen through the lens of an outsider. Geri o Shimasu has won the Memoir Category of the Great Southeast Book Festival, the General Fiction Category of the London Book Festival, a Firebird Book Award, a Spotlyts Story Award, an Atlas of Stories Book Award, and a Literary Titan Silver Award. Alia currently lives in Tampa, Florida with her amazing partner and their managerie of pets. You can visit her Substack at Still Not a Robot. The sequel to Compendium, Ocularum, is forthcoming in 2026, and her next collection of personal essays, Frivolous Bloodshed, is coming in 2027 from Unsolicited Press. Find her on Instagram, TikTok, and Youtube: alialuria
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    • Artifacts of Lumin, Book One
    • By: Alia Luria
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    • Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 09-21-15
    • Language: English
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