Rivka Galchen
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Born | Toronto, Ontario, Canada | April 19, 1976
Occupation | Writer |
Nationality | Canadian, American |
Education | Princeton University (A.B.) Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (M.D.) Columbia University (M.F.A.) |
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. 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, , 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]
Galchen writes for several national magazines, including The New Yorker,[26] Harper's Magazine,[27] and the New York Times Magazine.[28] She contributes criticism and essays to The London Review of Books.[29]
Bibliography[]
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Novels[]
- Galchen, Rivka (2008). Atmospheric Disturbances. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
- — (2021). Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Cite has empty unknown parameter:
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For children[]
- — (2019). Rat Rule 79. New York: Restless Books.
Short story collections[]
- — (2014). American Innovations: Stories. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Essay collections[]
- — (2016). Little Labors. New York: New Directions.
Partial list of short stories[]
Title | Year | First published | Reprinted/collected |
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The Region of Unlikeness | 2008 | Galchen, Rivka (March 24, 2008). "The region of unlikeness". The New Yorker. | |
Wild Berry Blue | 2008 | Galchen, Rivka. "Wild berry blue". Open City. 25. | Dave Eggers, ed. (2009). The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2009. New York: Mariner. |
Once An Empire | 2010 | Galchen, Rivka (Feb 2010). "Once an empire". Harper's. | |
The Lost Order | 2013 | Galchen, Rivka (January 7, 2013). "The lost order". The New Yorker. | |
Usl at the Stadium | 2015 | Galchen, Rivka (October 5, 2015). "Usl at the Stadium". The New Yorker. | |
How Can I Help? | 2016 | Galchen, Rivka (September 19, 2016). "How Can I help?". The New Yorker. Archived from the original on October 29, 2016. Retrieved October 29, 2016. |
Partial list of nonfiction[]
- "My Mother, Myself". The New York Times, 2007.
- "Disaster Aversion: The Quest to Control Hurricanes". Harper's Magazine, 2009.
- "From the pencil zone: Robert Walser's masterworklets". Harper's Magazine, 2010.
- "Dream Machine: The Mind-Expanding World of Quantum Computing". The New Yorker, 2011.
- Galchen, Rivka (May 13, 2013). "Every disease on Earth : Elmhurst Hospital's medical melting pot". Annals of Medicine. The New Yorker. 89 (13): 50–57.
- — (June 3, 2013). "Big weather". The Talk of the Town. In Oklahoma. The New Yorker. 89 (16): 18–19.
- The Melancholy Mystery of Lullabies: On the bonds made between parents and children during a nightly ritual. New York Times Magazine, 2015
- — (April 13, 2015). "Weather underground : the arrival of man-made earthquakes". Letter from Oklahoma. The New Yorker. 91 (8): 34–40. Retrieved 2015-06-19.
- "The Only Thing I Envy Men" The New Yorker, 2016.
- "Living in New York’s Unloved Neighborhood". The New Yorker, 2021.
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: 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.
- ^ "Heartbreak and loss lie beneath fantastic tale". The Calgary Herald. Archived from the original on 2012-11-05. Retrieved 2008-10-18.
- ^ "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.
- ^ [1][dead link]
- ^ Jump up to: a b c "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. Retrieved 2008-10-19.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "2008 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize Finalists". The Writers' Trust. Archived from the original on December 27, 2008. Retrieved 2008-10-19.
- ^ "Rivka Galchen". Columbia University. Retrieved 1 March 2013.
- ^ "Past Winners and Finalists". Governor General’s Literary Awards. Retrieved 2021-01-12.
- ^ "Rivka Galchen". Columbia University. Retrieved 2021-08-25.
- ^ "Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie". The New Yorker. 2010-06-07. Retrieved 2016-03-02.
- ^ "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.
- ^ https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/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.
- ^ "2014 Finalists". Scotia Bank Giller Prize. Retrieved 2021-01-12.
- ^ "Winners announced for the 2014 Danuta Gleed Literary Award". The Writer's Union of Canada. Retrieved 2021-01-12.
- ^ Ruhl, Sarah (2016-05-12). "'Little Labors,' by Rivka Galchen". New York Times. Retrieved 2021-06-25.
- ^ "Everyone Knows Your Mother is a Witch". Macmillan. 2021-06-08. Retrieved 2021-06-25.
- ^ "Contributors – Rivka Galchen". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2021-01-12.
- ^ "Rivka Galchen". Harper's Magazine. Retrieved 2021-01-12.
- ^ "Contributors - Rivka Galchen". The New York Times Magazine. Retrieved 2021-08-28.
- ^ "Contributors - Rivka Galchen". The London Review of Books. Retrieved 2021-08-28.
External links[]
Interviews[]
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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"
Author page[]
- 1976 births
- Living people
- 21st-century American novelists
- 21st-century Canadian novelists
- 21st-century Canadian short story writers
- 21st-century Canadian women writers
- American women novelists
- Canadian expatriate writers in the United States
- Canadian people of Israeli descent
- Canadian women novelists
- Canadian women short story writers
- Columbia University School of the Arts alumni
- Columbia University faculty
- Harper's Magazine people
- Jewish American novelists
- Jewish Canadian writers
- The New Yorker people
- Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award winners
- Writers from Toronto
- 21st-century American women writers