Rivka Galchen
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Rivka Galchen is an award-winning 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), Little Labors (essays, New Directions, 2016), Rat Rule 79 (middle grade novel, 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.
BOOKS
by Rivka Galchen
Illustrations by Elena Megalos
Yonder: Restless Books for Young Readers
From the New Yorker “20 Under 40” author of Atmospheric Disturbances comes a brain-twisting adventure story of a girl named Fred on a quest through a world of fantastical creatures, strange logic, and a powerful prejudice against growing up.
Hardcover: 9781632060990 • Sep 24, 2019
Paperback: 9781632061027 • Aug 10, 2021