Devorah Uriel
RECENT PUBICATIONS
Franz Kafka
“A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity”
Works in Progress
MAMA
DAMA
DOOZY
A Memoir of Family and Mental Illness
Our house was on fire. It had been burning for generations. Many were trapped, many maimed, but a few had managed to crawl out before me, so when I turned fourteen, desperate to escape, I grabbed a few things of sentimental value and ran. I didn’t look back. I didn’t think. I didn’t have a plan. Except to survive. To get away. But, of course you cannot escape your family. This is a story about the unbreakable connections between a mother and a daughter, the legacy of mental illness, and my messy path to happiness.
SPLICED
A NOVEL
When sixteen-year-old, Railla finds her dead mother's iPad hidden in the mountains, she discovers she may not be an orphan after all, and her mother may be responsible for the death or mutilation of half a million people. LoDen was quarantined after The Freak, and the city’s children were left to fend for themselves. Now it is filled with Muties, and the Spliced—the survivors genetically changed by the mosquito-born inoculation her mother created. And the experiments continue. Returning to LoDen seems like certain death, but it is the only way she’ll find out the truth.
About Devorah
Devorah Uriel currently lives in Denver, Colorado, in the shadow of the glorious Rocky Mountains. Roped to an eccentric and adventurous mother, she grew up across the United States and Europe. Her flash fiction and essays have been published in print and online journals such as Gravity Press, 88 Poets Press, BioStories, and Dime Show Review. When she isn't writing or coaching young people in the craft of writing, she is likely reading, walking her Golden Sheltie rescue pup, gardening, or wandering about lost in another story idea.
