The book was shortlisted for the 2016 Man Booker Prize. In August 2015, Penguin Press published Moshfegh's novel Eileen. McGlue was the first recipient of the Fence Modern Prize in Prose. In 2014, Fence Books published Moshfegh's novella McGlue. During those years, she supported herself by selling vintage clothing which she has described as mostly 'tea dresses.' Works After contracting cat-scratch fever, she left the city and earned an MFA from Brown University. She worked for Overlook Press, and then as an assistant for Jean Stein. In her mid-twenties, Moshfegh moved to New York City. Career Īfter college, Moshfegh moved to China, where she taught English and worked in a punk bar. Moshfegh was a Wallace Stegner Fellow in fiction at Stanford University from 2013 to 2015. During her MFA study at Brown, she taught undergraduates, including Antonia Angress, author of the 2022 novel Sirens & Muses. She completed an MFA in Literary Arts from Brown University in 2011. She attended the Commonwealth School in Boston and received her BA in English from Barnard College in 2002. As a child, Moshfegh learned to play piano and clarinet.

Her parents were both musicians and taught at the New England Conservatory of Music. Her mother was born in Croatia and her father, who is Jewish, was born in Iran. Moshfegh was born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1981. Moshfegh's subsequent novels include My Year of Rest and Relaxation, Death in Her Hands, and Lapvona. Her debut novel, Eileen (2015), won the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and was a fiction finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.

Ottessa Charlotte Moshfegh ( / oʊ ˈ t ɛ s ə ˈ m ɒ ʃ f ɛ ɡ/ born May 20, 1981) is an American author and novelist.

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