Omer Fried­lan­der was born in Jerusalem in 1994 and grew up in Tel Aviv. He earned a BA in Eng­lish lit­er­a­ture from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Cam­bridge, Eng­land, and an MFA from Boston Uni­ver­si­ty, where he was sup­port­ed by the Saul Bel­low Fel­low­ship. His short sto­ries have won numer­ous awards and have been pub­lished in the Unit­ed States, Cana­da, France, and Israel. A Star­works Fel­low in Fic­tion at New York Uni­ver­si­ty, he has earned a Bread Loaf Work-Study Schol­ar­ship as well as a fel­low­ship from the Ver­mont Stu­dio Cen­ter. He cur­rent­ly lives in New York City.