Rivka Galchen
Galchen speaking at the 2009 Brooklyn Book Festival.
Born	(1976-04-19)April 19, 1976 (age 48) Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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. Herfirst novel,Atmospheric Disturbances, was published in 2008 and was awarded theWilliam Saroyan International Prize for Writing. She is the author of five books and a contributor of journalism and essays toThe New Yorker.

Galchen was born inToronto, Ontario, to Israeli academics.^[1] When she was in preschool, her parents relocated to the United States.^[2] She grew up inNorman,Oklahoma, where her father, Tzvi Gal-chen, was a professor of meteorology at theUniversity of Oklahoma and her mother was a computer programmer at theNational Severe Storms Laboratory.^[3][4]

Galchen received herM.D. from Mount Sinai in 2003.^[5] After medical school, she earned aMFA in 2006 fromColumbia University, where she was aRobert Bingham fellow.^[5]

In 2006, Galchen received theRona 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] theCanadian Writers' Trust Fiction Prize,^[10] and the 2008Governor General's Award.^[11][12]

Galchen teaches writing atColumbia 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 theAmerican Academy in Berlin.^[15] In 2015, she received aGuggenheim Fellowship.^[16]

Galchen's short-story collectionAmerican Innovations was published in 2014.^{[17][18][19][20][21]} It was longlisted for the 2014Scotiabank Giller Prize^[22] and received theDanuta 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 publishedLittle 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 2021Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize.^[26]

Galchen writes for several national magazines, includingThe New Yorker,^[27]Harper's Magazine,^[28] andThe New York Times Magazine.^[29] She contributes criticism and essays to theLondon Review of Books.^[30]

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• Atmospheric Disturbances. New York:Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2008.
• Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2021.

• Rat Rule 79. New York: Restless Books. 2019.

• American Innovations: Stories. New York:Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2014.

Wikimedia Commons has media related toRivka Galchen.

• Interview of Galchen at The Fabulist
• Interview of Galchen at The Paris Review

• New York Times review ofAtmospheric Disturbances
• Salon review ofAtmospheric Disturbances
• James Wood review in "The New Yorker"
• "New York Times" review of "American Innovations"
• "Globe and Mail" review of "American Innovations"

• https://arts.columbia.edu/profiles/rivka-galchen/

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