Tania Hershman is a former science journalist originally from London. After 15 years in Jerusalem, she and her partner are relocating to Bristol, UK. Commended by the judges of the 2009 Orange Award for New Writers, her first short story collection, The White Road and Other Stories is published by Salt Modern Fiction.
Her short stories have been published in print and online, in publications including PANK magazine, Smokelong Quarterly, Drunk and Lonely Men, Eyeshot, Literary Fever, Riptide, Cafe Irreal, the Hiss Quarterly, Front&Centre, Vestal Review, and Transmission, and Riffing on Strings, an anthology of fiction inspired by String Theory. She has had three stories broadcast on BBC Radio 4.
Tania is the winner of the Binnacle's 2009 Ultra Short Competition, joint winner of the 2008 Biscuit Flash Fiction Competition, and European regional winner of the 2008 Commonwealth Broadcasting Association's short story competition.
She is the founder and editor of The Short Review a site dedicated to reviewing short story collections and anthologies.