Rivka Galchen
Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 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 staff writer at The New Yorker.
Early life
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]
Education
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]
Career
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 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]
Bibliography
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- ↑ Langer, Adam (May 7, 2014). "Short Stories That Riff Playfully on Some Enduring Forebears". The New York Times.
- ↑ Kirsch, Adam (May 8, 2014). "Rivka Galchen Is Not Your Mommy". Tablet.
- ↑ Gartner, Zsuzsi (May 16, 2014). "American Innovations: Canadian-born Rivka Galchen hits it out of the park again and again". The Globe and Mail.
- ↑ Cheuse, Alan (May 14, 2014). "Everyday Life Is a Rich Mine Of Absurdity In 'American Innovations'". NPR.
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- ↑ Hillary Kelly, "Rivka Galchen’s Unsettling Powers". Vulture, June 7, 2021.
- ↑ Deborah Dundas, "‘May the force be with you’: Five finalists for the first Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize announced". Toronto Star, September 29, 2021.
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External links
Interviews
Reviews
- New York Times review of Atmospheric Disturbances
- Salon review of Atmospheric Disturbances
- James Wood review in "The New Yorker"
- "New York Times" review of "American Innovations"
- "Globe and Mail" review of "American Innovations"
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