About

Ori Fienberg is a Jewish, XXY writer whose prose and poetry pops up all sorts of places including The Commuter, Diagram, Essay Daily, HAD, Heavy Feather Review, Mid American Review, Passages North, Ploughshares, Rattle, Smartish Pace and plenty more.

Ori’s first full-length collection, Where Babies Come From, landed September 15, 2024, and is available from Cornerstone Press, and has been called “dazzling” by the Chicago Review of Books and the Mid American Review. Prior chapbooks include Interim Assistant Dean of Having a Rich Inner Life, published by Ghost City Press, and featured in the Northeastern University College of Professional Studies’ Dean’s Newsletter, as well as Old Habits, New Markets, selected as the winner of Elsewhere Magazine‘s Annual Contest by Zachary Schomburg.

Like middle school science fair projects deserving of “honorable mention”, Ori’s writing has also been nominated and selected as a finalist for Sundress Publications’ Best of the Net multiple times, selected three times as a finalist for the Mid-American Review Fineline Contest, nominated for a Pushcart, as well as a finalist for New Michigan Press Chapbook Contest, Conduit First Book Prize, and the Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Prize. He has completed residencies with La Muse Inn, the Sundress Academy for the Arts, and was a Scholar at the Yetzirah 2024 Jewish Poetry Conference.

In the fullness of time, Ori has lived in the states of IA, MS, MA, NH, OH, PA, IL, and OK. Along the way he attended Oberlin College, completed his MFA at the University of Iowa, led his bowling team to a 3rd place finish in the Lone Tree Men’s League, captained the Slippery Unicorns trivia team, and lead his recreational league volleyball team, the Barracudas, to an undefeated season.

As an academic and community affairs professional, he has promoted and presented on research and originality, responsible use of Artificial Intelligence, as well as engaged instruction and learning. His editorial clients include musicians, essayists, fiction, and nonfiction writers. He teaches poetry and persuasive writing for Northeastern University. Ori’s lucky to be one part of what the Los Angeles Times called “the ultimate AWP couple” along with essayist and potter Emily Maloney.

In the smoldering ruins of Xitter, Ori almost never posts, but you can find him there and all social media platforms posting about poetry, environmentalism, the moon, and occasionally baseball @ArtfulHerring or contact him at ori.fienberg[@]gmail.com.