Eileen (Mosfegh) - Author Bio

Author Bio
• Birth—May 20, 1981
• Where—Boston, Massachusetts, USA
• Education—Stanford University
• Awards—Paris Review’s Plimpton Prize; Fence Modern Prize in Prose
• Currently—a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California


Ottessa Moshfegh is an American author and novelist, born in Boston, Massachusetts. Her mother was born in Croatia and her father was born in Iran. She received the Plimpton Prize for Fiction from The Paris Review in 2013 for her story "Bettering Myself."

Moshfegh is a frequent contributor to The Paris Review; she has published six stories in the journal since 2012. Fence Books published her novella, McGlue, in 2014, as the inaugural winner of the Fence Modern Prize in Prose judged by Rivka Galchen. It was shortlisted for the Believer Book Award.

Her novel, Eileen, was published in 2015 to positive reviews, while a forthcoming collection of short stories is set to be published, although the date has not been announced.

Moshfegh was a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University from 2013 to 2015. (Adapted from Wikipedia. Retrieved 8/24/2015.)