Rivka Galchen is a Canadian-American writer and journalist born in Toronto in 1976. She is the author of the novel Atmospheric Disturbances (2008), which received the William Saroyan International Prize for Fiction. Her collection of short stories American Innovations (2014) was awarded the Danuta Gleed Literary Award, and her novel Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch (2021) was a finalist for the Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize. Her work spans genres such as literary fiction, essays, and short narrative.
Galchen is a regular contributor to magazines like The New Yorker, Harper’s, and The New York Times. She studied medicine at Mount Sinai School of Medicine and earned an MFA in creative writing at Columbia University, where she also teaches. In 2010, she was included in The New Yorker’s “20 Under 40” list, highlighting the most promising writers under 40 years old. Her style is characterized by a sharp and original look at reality, with an approach that combines humor, science, and emotional exploration.
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