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Rivka Galchen
Galchen speaking at the 2009 Brooklyn Book Festival.
Galchen speaking at the 2009 Brooklyn Book Festival.
Born (1976-04-19) April 19, 1976 (age 47)
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
OccupationWriter
NationalityCanadian, American
Education Princeton University ( AB)
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai ( MD)
Columbia University ( MFA)
Notable worksAtmospheric Disturbances (2008)
Notable awardsWilliam 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.

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'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]

Bibliography

Novels

  • Atmospheric disturbances. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2008.
  • Everyone knows your mother is a witch. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2021.
For children
  • Rat Rule 79. New York: Restless Books. 2019.

Short fiction

Collections
  • American innovations : stories. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2014.

References

  1. ^ a b Kellogg, Carolyn (2014-05-01). "Rivka Galchen talks about putting a female twist on iconic stories". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2021-03-01.
  2. ^ "Heartbreak and loss lie beneath fantastic tale". The Calgary Herald. Archived from the original on 2012-11-05. Retrieved 2008-10-18.
  3. ^ "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.
  4. ^ [1][ dead link]
  5. ^ a b c "The Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Awards 2006". Archived from the original on 2008-06-05. Retrieved 2008-10-19.
  6. ^ Schillinger, Liesl (July 13, 2008). "Book Review | 'Atmospheric Disturbances,' by Rivka Galchen" – via NYTimes.com.
  7. ^ Wood, James (June 16, 2008). "She's Not Herself" – via www.newyorker.com.
  8. ^ 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.
  9. ^ "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.
  10. ^ "2008 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize Finalists". The Writers' Trust. Archived from the original on December 27, 2008. Retrieved 2008-10-19.
  11. ^ "Rivka Galchen". Columbia University. Retrieved 1 March 2013.
  12. ^ "Past Winners and Finalists". Governor General’s Literary Awards. Retrieved 2021-01-12.
  13. ^ "Rivka Galchen". Columbia University. Retrieved 2021-08-25.
  14. ^ "Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie". The New Yorker. 2010-06-07. Retrieved 2016-03-02.
  15. ^ "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.
  16. ^ "John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Rivka Galchen".
  17. ^ Kelly, Hillary (2014-05-06). ""American Innovations" by Rivka Galchen Reviewed". New Republic. Retrieved 2016-03-02.
  18. ^ Langer, Adam (May 7, 2014). "Short Stories That Riff Playfully on Some Enduring Forebears". The New York Times.
  19. ^ Kirsch, Adam (May 8, 2014). "Rivka Galchen Is Not Your Mommy". Tablet.
  20. ^ Gartner, Zsuzsi (May 16, 2014). "American Innovations: Canadian-born Rivka Galchen hits it out of the park again and again". The Globe and Mail.
  21. ^ Cheuse, Alan (May 14, 2014). "Everyday Life Is a Rich Mine Of Absurdity In 'American Innovations'". NPR.
  22. ^ "2014 Finalists". Scotia Bank Giller Prize. Retrieved 2021-01-12.
  23. ^ "Winners announced for the 2014 Danuta Gleed Literary Award". The Writer's Union of Canada. 25 May 2015. Retrieved 2021-01-12.
  24. ^ Ruhl, Sarah (2016-05-12). "'Little Labors,' by Rivka Galchen". New York Times. Retrieved 2021-06-25.
  25. ^ Hillary Kelly, "Rivka Galchen’s Unsettling Powers". Vulture, June 7, 2021.
  26. ^ 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.
  27. ^ "Contributors – Rivka Galchen". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2021-01-12.
  28. ^ "Rivka Galchen". Harper's Magazine. Retrieved 2021-01-12.
  29. ^ McCarthy, Lauren (10 July 2020). "Contributors - Rivka Galchen". The New York Times. Retrieved 2021-08-28.
  30. ^ "Contributors - Rivka Galchen". The London Review of Books. Retrieved 2021-08-28.

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