Rivka Galchen is an award winning fiction writer and journalist, whose work appears often in?The New Yorker,?Harper’s,?The London Review of Books?and?The New York Times.?She is the author of three books:?Atmospheric Disturbances?(Novel, FSG, 2008),?American Innovations?(Short Stories, FSG 2014) and?Little Labors?(Essays, New Directions, 2016). 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. 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.
Links to Selected Stories:
"Usl at the Stadium", 'The New Yorker, October,' 2015"The Lost Order", 'The New Yorker,' January, 2013
Links to Selected Criticism:
"What Kind of Funny is He?, Kafka", 'The London Review of Books,' December, 2014"The Monkey Did It / The facts in the case of Haruki Murakami", 'Harper's,' Oct…
Links to Selected Journalism:
"Mo Willems's Funny Failures", 'The New Yorker,' February, 2017"Weather Underground / The arrival of man-made earthquakes", 'The New Yorker,' …
"Disaster Aversion / The quest to control hurricanes", 'Harper's,' October 2009
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Writing'Everyone Knows Your Mother is a Witch' by Professor Rivka Galchen Makes Canada Reads Longlist
Everyone?Knows Your Mother is a Witch?by Assistant Professor?Rivka Galchen?recently made the longlist for Canada Reads.
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Rivka Galchen Writes a Witchy New Novel
Read her book?to find out what to do if your mother is accused of being a sorceress.
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This Is Who We Are: Professor Rivka Galchen
This Is Who We Are?is a series featuring Columbia School of the Arts’ professors, covering careers, pedagogy, and art-making during a pandemic. Here, we talk with alumna and? Assistant Professor of Writing?Rivka Galchen?'06 about teaching her hybrid seminar last fall, her forthcoming novel?Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch, and the fluidity of her writing practice.?
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'Everyone Knows Your Mother is a Witch' by Professor Rivka Galchen to Release in June
Everyone Knows Your Mother is a Witch, a novel by Assistant Professor Rivka Galchen, will be released by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux on June 8, 2021.
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Columbia Faculty and Alumni Make the Grade on NPR's Best Books List
Many Columbia alumni and faculty were among those recognized by NPR’s prestigious end of year list.
Concentration Head, Fiction
Associate Professor, Writing
Writing Alumna 2006