Dr. Nora Gold received her Ph.D from the University of Toronto, and is a certified member of the Ontario College of Social Workers and Social Service Workers. She has published widely in her areas of special interest, which include cross-cultural communication and issues related to diversity and anti-oppression. She has scholarly publications to her credit, as well as seven funded research grants, including two grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and two from the Halbert Centre for Canadian Studies. A few examples of previous projects:

• Research that compared two different countries in terms of how their newspapers wrote about people with disabilities, and how the social workers in these two countries decided whether or not to remove an at-risk child from the home.
• Cross-cultural training program with executives from Israel who planned to purchase assets in Canada.
• Cultural diversity training for Canadian executives working abroad in multinational contexts.

Formally, Dr. Gold was a tenured Associate Professor of Social Work at McMaster University. She also was the Scholar-in-Residence and subsequently the Writer-in-Residence at the Centre for Women’s Studies at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto (OISE/UT). Dr. Gold has presented at numerous national and international conferences on her work, and has appeared in newspapers and on radio as an expert commentator.

Dr. Nora Gold is also a prize-winning writer of fiction and the author of five books. These are:

Marrow and Other Stories winner of a Canadian Jewish Book Award and praise from Alice Munro;

Fields of Exile winner of the 2015 Canadian Jewish Literary Award;

The Dead Man 2016, awarded a Canada Council Translation Grant and published in Hebrew;

18: Jewish Stories Translated From 18 Languages (2023) Publishers Weekly gave 18 a wonderful review and Cynthia Ozick wrote about 18: “This is a landmark anthology. Nora Gold is a remarkable pioneer who has my heartfelt admiration.”

In Sickness and In Health / Yom Kippur in a Gym Two novellas published in 2024. One reviewer wrote: What is so wonderful and compelling about both these novellas is the deep compassion and understanding that Gold has for her characters. Dr. Gold also has another book of novellas coming out in 2026.

Dr. Nora Gold is the founder and editor of the Jewish Fiction Journal, a prestigious online literary journal, which publishes Jewish-themed fiction that was either written in English or translated into English from 20 languages, and which has readers in 140 countries. Dr. Gold has received considerable media attention in the United States, Canada, and Israel both for her books and for her Jewish Fiction Journal, and she has appeared as a featured guest on podcasts and videocasts based in India, Australia, and the United States. She is also active on LinkedIn, where she has over 100,000 followers, her popular posts have garnered more than 100,000 views, and one of her posts was viewed by over one million people. For more information about Dr. Nora Gold see noragold.com