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Ottessa Moshfegh

Ottessa Moshfegh is a fiction writer from Boston. She was awarded the Plimpton Prize for her stories in The Paris Review and granted a creative writing fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. She is currently a Wallace Stegner fellow at Stanford.

Awards: PEN (2016) see all

Genres: Literary Fiction, Mystery

Novels

   Eileen (2015)
   My Year of Rest and Relaxation (2018)
   Death in Her Hands (2020)
   Lapvona (2022)

Collections

Homesick For Another World (2017)

Novellas and Short Stories

McGlue (2017)

Series contributed to

Electric Literature's Recommended Reading
Bettering Myself (2013)

Awards

	2017 Granta Best of Young American Novelists
	2016 PEN/Hemingway Award : Eileen

Award nominations

	2016 Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novel (nominee) : Eileen
	2016 John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger (shortlist) : Eileen
	2016 Booker Prize (shortlist) : Eileen
	2015 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction (nominee) : Eileen

Ottessa Moshfegh recommends

Liarmouth (2022)
John Waters
"I couldn't put it down, like a bomb singing me a lullaby. For fans of John's movies, this will be a delicious treat. And for the boring people who don't know what's up, good luck. Marsha is probably the funniest villain I've ever read, and I was cheering for her the whole way through. Like all of John's work, this was true comedy, he has ransacked culture for its absurdity, violence and lunacy, and yet somehow I am happier to be here after going along for the ride."

Deep Ellum (2014)
Brandon Hobson
"Restrained, dark, and strangely silent . . . If you've ever had a homecoming laced with sadness and longing, you'll relate to [Deep Ellum]."

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