Ottessa Moshfegh

Ottessa Moshfegh
Moshfegh at the 2015 Texas Book Festival.
Born	Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Occupation	Novelist, writer
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Barnard College (BA) Brown University (MFA)
Genre	Fiction, essays
Notable works	Eileen

Ottessa Moshfegh is an American author and novelist.^[1] Moshfegh was born in Boston, Massachusetts. Her mother was born in Croatia and her father was born in Iran.^[2]

Career

Moshfegh is a frequent contributor to the Paris Review; she has published six stories in the journal since 2012.^[3] Fence Books published her novella, McGlue, in 2014. Her novel, Eileen, was published by Penguin Press in August 2015, and received positive reviews.^[4][5] A forthcoming collection of short stories is set to be published, although the date has not been announced.^[6]

Awards and honors

• 2013-2015 Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University^[7]
• 2013 Plimpton Prize for Fiction from The Paris Review for her story "Bettering Myself"^[3]
• 2014 Fence Modern Prize in Prose (judged by Rivka Galchen), inaugural winner for McGlue^[8]
• 2014 Believer Book Award winner for McGlue^[9]

Bibliography

Novels

• McGlue (2014)
• Eileen (2015)

Short stories

• "Disgust", The Paris Review, No. 202, Fall 2012
• "Bettering Myself", The Paris Review, No. 204 Spring 2013
• "The Weirdos", The Paris Review, No. 206, 2013
• "A Dark and Winding Road", The Paris Review, No. 207, Winter 2013
• "Slumming", The Paris Review, No. 211, Winter 2014
• "Nothing Ever Happens Here", Granta, Issue 131, Spring 2015
• "The Surrogate", Vice, June, 2015
• "Dancing in Moonlight", The Paris Review, No. 214 Fall 2015
• "The Beach Boy", The New Yorker, January 4, 2016

Essays

• "Anything to Make You Happy", Lucky Peach, May, 2015
• "How to Shit", The Masters Review, October, 2015

Collections

• Homesick for Another World, 2016^[10]

References

1. Novak, Joanna (3 November 2014). "Ottessa Moshfegh Is the Next Big Thing, and Here Are 7 Reasons Why". Bustle. Retrieved 13 April 2015.
2. "Character Finds A Path Out Of Her Personal Prison In 'Eileen'". NPR. 15 August 2015. Retrieved 15 August 2015.
3. Stein, Lorin. "Ottessa Moshfegh". BOMB Magazine. Retrieved 13 April 2015.
4. "Eileen: A Novel". Penguin Press.
5. King, Lily (14 August 2015). "‘Eileen,’ by Ottessa Moshfegh". The New York Times. Retrieved 14 August 2015.
6. "Two from Moshfegh for Cape". thebookseller.com.
7. "Stegner Fellowship – Complete List of Stegner Fellows « Stanford Creative Writing Program". stanford.edu.
8. "The Fence Modern Prize in Prose". Past winners. Retrieved November 23, 2015.
9. "The Believer Book Award". The Believer. November 2015. Retrieved November 23, 2015.
10. Treisman, Deborah (December 28, 2015). "This Week in Fiction: Ottessa Moshfegh on the Repressed Western Consciousness". The New Yorker.

External links

• Hazlitt interview
• Gawker interview