Canadian-American writer (born 1976)
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.
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 .
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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]
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[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.
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[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
Novels
For children
Rat Rule 79 . New York: Restless Books. 2019.
Short fiction
Collections
American innovations : stories . New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2014.
References
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b Kellogg, Carolyn (2014-05-01).
"Rivka Galchen talks about putting a female twist on iconic stories" . Los Angeles Times . Retrieved 2021-03-01 .
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"Heartbreak and loss lie beneath fantastic tale" . The Calgary Herald. Archived from
the original on 2012-11-05. Retrieved 2008-10-18 .
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"Rivka Galchen, M.D. from Oklahoma Is the Latest Successor to Pynchon" . The New York Observer . Archived from
the original on 2013-01-30. Retrieved 2008-10-19 .
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dead link ]
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"The Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Awards 2006" . Archived from
the original on 2008-06-05. Retrieved 2008-10-19 .
^ Schillinger, Liesl (July 13, 2008).
"Book Review | 'Atmospheric Disturbances,' by Rivka Galchen" – via NYTimes.com.
^ Wood, James (June 16, 2008).
"She's Not Herself" – via www.newyorker.com.
^ The novel features a character with her father's name, Tzvi Gal-Chen, a fictional professor of meteorology and a fellow of the fictional Royal Academy of Meteorology . See
"She's Not Herself: A first novel about marriage and madness" . The New Yorker . 16 June 2008. Retrieved 2008-10-19 .
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"2008 John Sargent, Sr. First Novel Prize Finalists" . The Mercantile Library for Fiction. Archived from
the original on 2008-05-31. Retrieved 2008-10-19 .
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"2008 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize Finalists" . The Writers' Trust. Archived from
the original on December 27, 2008. Retrieved 2008-10-19 .
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"Rivka Galchen" . Columbia University. Retrieved 1 March 2013 .
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"Past Winners and Finalists" . Governor General’s Literary Awards . Retrieved 2021-01-12 .
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"Rivka Galchen" . Columbia University. Retrieved 2021-08-25 .
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"Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie" . The New Yorker . 2010-06-07. Retrieved 2016-03-02 .
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"Mary Ellen von der Heyden Fiction Fellow, Class of Spring 2011" . American Academy in Berlin. Archived from
the original on January 24, 2016. Retrieved March 11, 2012 .
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"John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Rivka Galchen" .
^ Kelly, Hillary (2014-05-06).
" "American Innovations" by Rivka Galchen Reviewed" . New Republic. Retrieved 2016-03-02 .
^ 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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"2014 Finalists" . Scotia Bank Giller Prize . Retrieved 2021-01-12 .
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"Winners announced for the 2014 Danuta Gleed Literary Award" . The Writer's Union of Canada . 25 May 2015. Retrieved 2021-01-12 .
^ Ruhl, Sarah (2016-05-12).
" 'Little Labors,' by Rivka Galchen" . New York Times . Retrieved 2021-06-25 .
^ 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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"Contributors – Rivka Galchen" . The New Yorker . Retrieved 2021-01-12 .
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"Rivka Galchen" . Harper's Magazine . Retrieved 2021-01-12 .
^ McCarthy, Lauren (10 July 2020).
"Contributors - Rivka Galchen" . The New York Times . Retrieved 2021-08-28 .
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"Contributors - Rivka Galchen" . The London Review of Books . Retrieved 2021-08-28 .
External links
Interviews
Reviews
Author page
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