Lior Torenberg
Operator by day and novelist by night.
Represented by Aram Fox at MMQ Literary.
Books
Just Watch Me
Forthcoming from Avid Reader, a division of Simon & Schuster, in Spring 2026
Short Fiction
Quarter After Eight, Shakshouka (2023)
Thin Air Magazine, Elohim Yishmor (2023)
One Story, Etymology (2022)
More Time: a brief anthology of indie author short fiction, Wanting (2020)
Milk Candy Review, Je Devore (2019)
Non Fiction
New Croton Review, I Pretend He Doesn't Exist (2024)
MAYDAY, Revision (2023)
Red Light Fiction Reading Series, I Pretend He Doesn't Exist (2022)
Glassworks, On Hunger (2022)
Poetry
The Poetry Society of New York, May Day Poem #5 (2021)
Spilt Milk, Headline Poems (2020)
Pandemic Poems, My Body Has to Agree to Die (2020). Featured in the United States Library of Congress' Coronavirus Web Archives
december, vol.30.1, Tunis, Tangier (2019)
L'Ephemere Review, When You Come Home (2019)
Stylus Literary Magazine (2016; 2018)
Awards
nycmidnights, Short Story Competition, Finalist (2023)
nycmidnights Flash Fiction Competition, Semi-Finalist (2023)
Nominee for Sundress Publications' Best of the Net Anthology (2020)
Finalist in december magazine's Jeff Marks Memorial Poetry Prize (2019)
1st Place Prize in Bridges Together’s intergenerational story competition (2018)
Quarterfinalist in the 2018 ScreenCraft Cinematic Book Competition
Education
The Book Project, Lighthouse Workshop (2022-2024)
Masters of Fine Arts in Creative Writing, New York University (2019-2021)
Horror Movie Reviews
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