Rivka Galchen | |
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Born | Toronto, Ontario, Canada | April 19, 1976
Occupation | Writer |
Nationality | Canadian, American |
Education |
Princeton University (
AB) Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai ( MD) Columbia University ( MFA) |
Notable works | Atmospheric Disturbances (2008) |
Notable awards | William J. Saroyan International Prize for Fiction |
Rivka Galchen (born April 19, 1976) is a Canadian-American writer. Her first novel, Atmospheric Disturbances, was published in 2008 and was awarded the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing. She is the author of five books and a contributor of journalism and essays to The New Yorker magazine.
Galchen was born in Toronto, Ontario, to Israeli academics. [1] When she was in preschool, her parents relocated to the United States. [2] She grew up in Norman, Oklahoma, where her father, Tzvi Gal-chen, was a professor of meteorology at the University of Oklahoma and her mother was a computer programmer at the National Severe Storms Laboratory. [3] [4]
Galchen received her M.D. from Mount Sinai in 2003. [5] After medical school, she earned a MFA in 2006 from Columbia University, where she was a Robert Bingham fellow. [5]
In 2006, Galchen received the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award for women writers. [5]
Her first novel, Atmospheric Disturbances, was published in May 2008. [6] [7] [8] The novel was a finalist for the Mercantile Library's 2008 John Sargent, Sr., First Novel Prize, [9] the Canadian Writers' Trust's 2008 Fiction Prize, [10] and the 2008 Governor General's Award. [11] [12]
Galchen teaches writing at Columbia University. [13] In 2010, The New Yorker chose her as one of its "20 Under 40". [14]
Galchen served as the Mary Ellen von der Heyden Fiction Fellow for the Spring 2011 term at the American Academy in Berlin. [15] In 2015, she received a Guggenheim Fellowship. [16]
Galchen's short-story collection American Innovations was published in 2014. [17] [18] [19] [20] [21] It was longlisted for the 2014 Scotiabank Giller Prize [22] and received the Danuta Gleed Literary Award. [23] Each story is based on a well-known short story by another author, but switches the narrator from male to female and changes other elements. [1]
In 2016, Galchen published Little Labors, a book of essays about motherhood. [24]
In 2021, Galchen published her second novel, Everyone Knows Your Mother is a Witch. [25] The novel was shortlisted for the 2021 Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize. [26]
Galchen writes for several national magazines, including The New Yorker, [27] Harper's Magazine, [28] and The New York Times Magazine. [29] She contributes criticism and essays to The London Review of Books. [30]
Rivka Galchen | |
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Born | Toronto, Ontario, Canada | April 19, 1976
Occupation | Writer |
Nationality | Canadian, American |
Education |
Princeton University (
AB) Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai ( MD) Columbia University ( MFA) |
Notable works | Atmospheric Disturbances (2008) |
Notable awards | William J. Saroyan International Prize for Fiction |
Rivka Galchen (born April 19, 1976) is a Canadian-American writer. Her first novel, Atmospheric Disturbances, was published in 2008 and was awarded the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing. She is the author of five books and a contributor of journalism and essays to The New Yorker magazine.
Galchen was born in Toronto, Ontario, to Israeli academics. [1] When she was in preschool, her parents relocated to the United States. [2] She grew up in Norman, Oklahoma, where her father, Tzvi Gal-chen, was a professor of meteorology at the University of Oklahoma and her mother was a computer programmer at the National Severe Storms Laboratory. [3] [4]
Galchen received her M.D. from Mount Sinai in 2003. [5] After medical school, she earned a MFA in 2006 from Columbia University, where she was a Robert Bingham fellow. [5]
In 2006, Galchen received the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award for women writers. [5]
Her first novel, Atmospheric Disturbances, was published in May 2008. [6] [7] [8] The novel was a finalist for the Mercantile Library's 2008 John Sargent, Sr., First Novel Prize, [9] the Canadian Writers' Trust's 2008 Fiction Prize, [10] and the 2008 Governor General's Award. [11] [12]
Galchen teaches writing at Columbia University. [13] In 2010, The New Yorker chose her as one of its "20 Under 40". [14]
Galchen served as the Mary Ellen von der Heyden Fiction Fellow for the Spring 2011 term at the American Academy in Berlin. [15] In 2015, she received a Guggenheim Fellowship. [16]
Galchen's short-story collection American Innovations was published in 2014. [17] [18] [19] [20] [21] It was longlisted for the 2014 Scotiabank Giller Prize [22] and received the Danuta Gleed Literary Award. [23] Each story is based on a well-known short story by another author, but switches the narrator from male to female and changes other elements. [1]
In 2016, Galchen published Little Labors, a book of essays about motherhood. [24]
In 2021, Galchen published her second novel, Everyone Knows Your Mother is a Witch. [25] The novel was shortlisted for the 2021 Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize. [26]
Galchen writes for several national magazines, including The New Yorker, [27] Harper's Magazine, [28] and The New York Times Magazine. [29] She contributes criticism and essays to The London Review of Books. [30]