Dr. Nora Gold is a prize-winning author of five books. Her first, Marrow and Other Stories, won a Vine Canadian Jewish Book Award and was praised by Alice Munro. Her second book, Fields of Exile, won the inaugural Canadian Jewish Literary Award for best novel, and was acclaimed by Ruth Wisse and Irwin Cotler. The Dead Man was honoured with a Canada Council translation grant and published in Hebrew. Her most recent book, 18: Jewish Stories Translated from 18 Languages (an anthology of translated works), was praised by Publishers Weekly, Cynthia Ozick, Dara Horn, and Joseph Kertes. Gold's fifth book, In Sickness and In Health/Yom Kippur in a Gym (two novellas), will be published by Guernica Editions in March 2024.

Gold received her PhD from University of Toronto, was a tenured professor for ten years, and left her academic position to write fiction fulltime. Subsequently she was associated with the Centre for Women’s Studies at OISE/University of Toronto, where she was, for six years, its Writer-in-Residence and created and coordinated the Wonderful Women Writers reading series.

In addition, Gold is the founder and editor-in-chief of Jewish Fiction .net, a prestigious online literary journal that publishes first-rate Jewish-themed fiction from around the world. To date, Jewish Fiction .net has published almost 600 works of fiction that were either written in English or translated into English from 20 languages but never before published in English. These include works by eminent authors such as Elie Wiesel and Aharon Appelfeld, Canadians Gary Barwin, Chava Rosenfarb, George Jonas, Sidura Ludwig, Morley Torgov, David Bezmozgis, and Sonia Zylberberg, and many talented emerging writers. A story from Jewish Fiction .net was selected for the Fall 2023 Pushcart Prize anthology, and Jewish Fiction .net has readers in 140 countries.

Last but not least, Gold is an activist who has co-founded three socially progressive organizations in Canada, all devoted to strengthening democracy, civil rights, and social justice in Israel.