Omer Friedlander (1994) was born in Jerusalem and grew up in Tel Aviv. His debut collection of short stories, The Man Who Sold Air in the Holy Land, won numerous awards, including the Jewish Library Association Award and the Sophie Brody Award.

Omer studied at the University of Cambridge and at Boston University, where he received a Saul Bellow Fellowship. His short stories have won numerous awards and have been published in the United States, Canada, France and Israel. As a Starworks Fellow in Fiction at New York University, he received fellowships from Bread Loaf and the Vermont Studio Center. He currently lives in New York.