Ottessa Moshfegh

Ottessa Moshfegh is a fiction writer whose first book, McGlue , a novella, won the Fence Modern Prize in Prose and the Believer Book Award. Eileen , her first novel, was shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Man Booker Prize and won the PEN/Hemingway Award for debut fiction. She is also the author of the short story collection Homesick for Another World . Her stories have been published in the Paris Review , New Yorker , and Granta and have earned her a Pushcart Prize,...See more

Ottessa Moshfegh is a fiction writer whose first book, McGlue , a novella, won the Fence Modern Prize in Prose and the Believer Book Award. Eileen , her first novel, was shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Man Booker Prize and won the PEN/Hemingway Award for debut fiction. She is also the author of the short story collection Homesick for Another World . Her stories have been published in the Paris Review , New Yorker , and Granta and have earned her a Pushcart Prize, an O. Henry Award, the Plimpton Discovery Prize, and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. See less