Rivka Galchen Biography
Rivka Galchen is a well-known Canadian-American writer and journalist currently serving as a contributor to journalism and essays for The New Yorker magazine. Moreover, she has authored five books including Atmospheric Disturbances which was published in 2008. Additionally, her book received the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing.
Rivka Galchen Age
Rivka Galchen was born on 19th April 1976, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She is 46 years old.
Rivka Galchen Height
Rivka stands at a height of 5 feet 5 inches (Approx 1.65m).
Rivka Galchen Family
Rivka was born to her caring mother and her supportive father Tzvi Gal-Chen in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Her dad worked as a professor of meteorology at the University of Oklahoma while her mother worked as a computer programmer at the National Severe Storms Laboratory.
Rivka Galchen Husband
Rivka has managed to conceal her marital status despite being a prominent public figure. Therefore, we can hardly state if she is single, dating, married, or divorced. Nevertheless, we will keep you enlightened on time once seen in the public eye.
Rivka Galchen Education
After completing her high school education, she enrolled at Mount Sinai and graduated in 2003 with a Doctor of Medicine. Additionally, Rivka attended Columbia University and graduated in 2006 with a Master of Fine Arts Degree.
Rivka Galchen Salary
She receives a decent salary of $89,774 annually. This is according to The New Yorker contributors’ salaries.
Rivka Galchen Net Worth
Rivka has been able to stockpile good affluence in her career thus far and has an estimated net worth of $5 Million.
Rivka Galchen Career
She is currently serving as a contributor to journalism and essays for The New Yorker magazine since 2008. She writes regularly about science and medicine. Rivka’s subjects have also included her neighborhood P. G. Wodehouse and Karl May.
In 2006, Rivka won the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award for women writers. Additionally, she teaches writing at Columbia University. In 2010, she was selected by The New Yorker as one of its 20 Under 40. She served as the Mary Ellen von der Heyden Fiction Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin for the Spring term of 2011.
In 2015, Rivka received a Guggenheim Fellowship. Her short-story collection, American Innovations was published in 2014. Additionally, Rivka won the Danuta Gleed Literary Award and was longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize in 2014. In 2016, she published a book of essays about motherhood known as Little Labors which was shortlisted for the Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize in 2021.
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