Rivka Galchen Explained

Rivka Galchen
Birth Date:19 April 1976
Birth Place:Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Occupation:Writer
Nationality:Canadian, American
Notableworks:Atmospheric Disturbances (2008)
Awards:William J. Saroyan International Prize for Fiction
Education:Princeton University (AB)
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (MD)
Columbia University (MFA)

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.

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.

Career

In 2006, Galchen received the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award for women writers.

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 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.

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

For children

Collection

External links

Interviews

Reviews

Author page

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Kellogg. Carolyn. 2014-05-01. Rivka Galchen talks about putting a female twist on iconic stories. 2021-03-01. Los Angeles Times. en-US.
  2. Web site: 2008-10-18. Heartbreak and loss lie beneath fantastic tale. The Calgary Herald. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20121105083443/http://www.canada.com/calgaryherald/news/booksandthearts/story.html?id=34343ae4-3df7-4c5e-aa03-68ea05259ecf. 2012-11-05.
  3. News: 2008-10-19. Rivka Galchen, M.D. from Oklahoma Is the Latest Successor to Pynchon. https://archive.today/20130130221004/http://www.observer.com/2008/rivka-galchen-m-d-oklahoma-latest-successor-pynchon?page=0,2. dead. 2013-01-30. The New York Observer.
  4. http://www.observer.com/2008/rivka-galchen-m-d-oklahome-latest-successor-pynchon?page=2
  5. Web site: 2008-10-19. The Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Awards 2006 . https://web.archive.org/web/20080605130055/http://www.ronajaffefoundation.org/2006_winners.html . 2008-06-05.
  6. News: Book Review | 'Atmospheric Disturbances,' by Rivka Galchen. Liesl. Schillinger. July 13, 2008. NYTimes.com.
  7. Web site: She's Not Herself. James. Wood. June 16, 2008. 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 2008-10-19. She's Not Herself: A first novel about marriage and madness.. The New Yorker. 16 June 2008.
  9. Web site: 2008-10-19. 2008 John Sargent, Sr. First Novel Prize Finalists. The Mercantile Library for Fiction . https://web.archive.org/web/20080531043416/http://www.mercantilelibrary.org/awards/sargent.php . 2008-05-31.
  10. Web site: 2008-10-19 . 2008 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize Finalists . The Writers' Trust . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20081227200228/http://www.writerstrust.com/programs_apa_rogers_finalists.html . December 27, 2008 .
  11. Web site: Rivka Galchen. Columbia University. 1 March 2013.
  12. Web site: Past Winners and Finalists. 2021-01-12. Governor General’s Literary Awards.
  13. Web site: 2021-08-25 . Rivka Galchen . Columbia University .
  14. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie . The New Yorker . 2010-06-07 . 2016-03-02.
  15. Web site: Mary Ellen von der Heyden Fiction Fellow, Class of Spring 2011 . American Academy in Berlin . March 11, 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160124130848/http://www.americanacademy.de/home/person/rivka-galchen . January 24, 2016 . dead . mdy-all .
  16. Web site: John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Rivka Galchen.
  17. Web site: Kelly . Hillary . "American Innovations" by Rivka Galchen Reviewed . New Republic . 2014-05-06 . 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. Web site: 2014 Finalists. 2021-01-12. Scotia Bank Giller Prize.
  23. Web site: Winners announced for the 2014 Danuta Gleed Literary Award. 2021-01-12. The Writer's Union of Canada. 25 May 2015.
  24. Web site: Ruhl . Sarah . 'Little Labors,' by Rivka Galchen . New York Times . 2016-05-12 . 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. 2021-01-12. The New Yorker.
  28. Web site: Rivka Galchen. 2021-01-12. Harper's Magazine.
  29. News: Contributors - Rivka Galchen. 2021-08-28. The New York Times. 10 July 2020. McCarthy. Lauren.
  30. Web site: Contributors - Rivka Galchen. 2021-08-28. The London Review of Books.

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