AUTHOR’S BIO

Melissa Schorr, the author of the comedic young adult novel GOY CRAZY, is a widely published freelance journalist currently living outside Boston.

As a native New Yorker, she grew up in the Riverdale section of the Bronx and attended the Bronx High School of Science and Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism outside of Chicago. Upon graduating, she returned to New York and began her publishing career at Working Woman and GQ magazines.

While working in the editorial department at GQ, she proposed a humorous essay called “The Joys of Goys,” about her personal experience dating non-Jewish men. That generated national attention from angry rabbis to admiring prison inmates (as well as her agent), and served as the inspiration for her novel, about a Jewish girl who falls for a Catholic boy.

She has served as a stringer for People magazine in San Francisco, a columnist for the Las Vegas Sun, a staff features reporter for the Oakland Tribune, and a health writer for ABCNews.com in Boston.

Her work has also appeared in more than 20 publications, including Glamour, Self, Allure, Marie Claire, Bride’s, Baby Talk, Working Mother, In Style, Esquire, San Francisco, National Geographic Traveler, Wired magazine, as well as newspapers such as the Chicago Tribune, The Wall Street Journal and the San Jose Mercury News, and websites including Lifetimetv.com, Reuters Health and WebMD.

Among her accolades are winning first place for feature writing from the Nevada Press Association, and a 2000 Knight Science Journalism Fellowship from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge.

Schorr currently lives outside Boston, Mass., with her husband, her infant daughter, Alexa, and her dog, Bailey.

GOY CRAZY is her first novel.