Arnon Z. Shorr is a mas­ter sto­ry­teller on the screen and on the page, known for craft­ing char­ac­ter-dri­ven adven­tures that explore the extra­or­di­nary, often through a Jew­ish lens. He gained wide­spread atten­tion with José and the Pirate Cap­tain Toledano, a swash­buck­ling graph­ic nov­el about Jew­ish pirates in the 16th-cen­tu­ry Caribbean, which expand­ed on his award-win­ning short film. Shorr’s cre­ative work, which includes com­ic books, films and nov­els, fre­quent­ly delves into Jew­ish iden­ti­ty, blend­ing action-packed nar­ra­tives with deep reflec­tions on her­itage and tra­di­tion. His tal­ents have earned him a 2024 Fel­low­ship with the JWI Screen­writ­ers Lab and a 2024 – 25 Fel­low­ship with the PJ Library Sephardic Sto­ries Initiative.

As a pub­lic speak­er, Arnon has shared his jour­ney and cre­ative process at dozens of schools, libraries, JCCs and oth­er social and cul­tur­al insti­tu­tions, and has even spo­ken on sev­er­al pan­els at the leg­endary Com­ic Con in San Diego about Jew­ish rep­re­sen­ta­tion in com­ic books.