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Rivka Galchen

Rivka Galchen is an award novelist and a staff writer for The New
Yorker magazine. She is the author of five books: Atmospheric
Disturbances (Novel, FSG, 2008), American Innovations (Short Stories, FSG 2014) and Little Labors (Essays, New Directions, 2016), Rat Rule 79 (Novel for Children, Restless Books, 2019) and Everyone Knows Your Mother is a Witch (Novel, FSG, 2021.) She has received numerous prizes and fellowships, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Rona Jaffe Fellowship, The Berlin Prize and The William J Saroyan International Prize in Fiction, and her work has been widely anthologized. In 2010, she was named to The New Yorker’s list of 20 Writers Under 40. Galchen also holds an MD from Mount Sinai School of Medicine.