Galt Niederhoffer

Galt Niederhoffer is a novelist and producer. 

Niederhoffer has written four novels, including Poison, A Taxonomy of Barnacles, and The Romantics. Her essays and op-eds have been published in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Vogue, and New York Magazine. 

Ms. Niederhoffer has produced over twenty indy films, twelve of which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. Her films have won the Audience Award and the Sundance Awards for Screenwriting, Directing, and Cinematography. Niederhoffer’s films include The Kids are Alright (Frances Mcdormand, Annette Benning, Marc Ruffalo), Robot and Frank (Susan Sarandon, Frank Langella), Infinitely Polar Bear (Marc Ruffalo, Zoe Saldana), Grace is Gone (John Cusack), The Romantics (Anna Pacquin, Elijah Wood) and Lonesome Jim (Casey Affleck, Liv Tyler)

She teaches in Columbia University’s School of the Arts.