Nelly Reifler
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Nelly Reifler | |
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| Occupation | Writer |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Hampshire College (BA) Sarah Lawrence College (MFA) |
| Genre | Literary fiction, Mystery fiction |
Nelly Reifler is an American short story writer and novelist. She is perhaps best known for her short fiction collection See Through,[1] and her debut novel Elect H. Mouse State Judge, published by Faber and Faber in August 2013.[2]
Reifler began her career as an assistant to Paul Auster from 1997–2005, co-editing a collection with him titled I Thought My Father Was God.[3] Her stories have been published in various literary journals, including Failbetter, Black Book, BOMB, The Fiddleback, Sleepingfish, jubilat, Post Road, and McSweeneys.[4] She received a Henfield Prize in 1996,[5] won a Literary Death Match in 2010, and was a MacDowell Fellow in 2005.
She teaches creative writing at the Pratt Institute[6] and at Sarah Lawrence College.[7]
