Rivka Galchen
Rivka Galchen is an award novelist and a staff writer for The New Yorker magazine. She is the author of five books: Atmospheric Disturbances (Novel, FSG, 2008), American Innovations (Short Stories, FSG 2014) and Little Labors (Essays, New Directions, 2016), Rat Rule 79 (Novel for Children, Restless Books, 2019) and Everyone Knows Your Mother is a Witch (Novel, FSG, 2021.) 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, and her work has been widely anthologized. 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.
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News
Everyone Knows Your Mother is a Witch by Assistant Professor Rivka Galchen recently made the longlist for Canada Reads.
Read her book to find out what to do if your mother is accused of being a sorceress.
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.
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.
Many Columbia alumni and faculty were among those recognized by NPR’s prestigious end of year list.
Past Lives is an interview series with School of the Arts Writing faculty, students, and alumni who began their professional lives on different career paths. Here, we talk to Associate Professor, Head of Fiction, and Writing alumna Rivka Galchen '06 about her journey into and out of medicine, kooky scientists, and raising the fictional stakes.