Nelly Reifler

Nelly Reifler
EducationHampshire College (BA)
Sarah Lawrence College (MFA)
OccupationWriter
Writing career
GenresLiterary 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] Her three-part essay, "Blue Spark," was republished in Electric Literature in 2026.

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 Guernica, Failbetter, Black Book, BOMB, The Fiddleback, Sleepingfish, jubilat, Post Road, and McSweeneys.[4] The anthology Indelible in the Hippocampus (McSweeney's, 2019) includes an essay by Reifler. She has been a MacDowell fellow and Western Michigan University Writer in Residence.

She teaches creative writing at Sarah Lawrence College, where she was the Ellen Kingsley Hirschfeld Chair in Writing 2021-2024.[5] She has also taught at Pratt Institute and Columbia University.

Partial bibliography

  • "Elect H. Mouse State Judge: A Novel" Faber & Faber (August 6, 2013) ISBN 9780865477650

References

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