Nelly Reifler

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Nelly Reifler is an American writer who publishes short stories and novels. She is best known for See Through, a collection of stories, and Elect H. Mouse State Judge, her first novel, published in 2013 by Faber & Faber. Early in her career, she worked as an assistant to Paul Auster from 1997 to 2005 and helped edit a collection they worked on called I Thought My Father Was God. Her stories have appeared in many literary magazines, including Failbetter, Black Book, BOMB, The Fiddleback, Sleepingfish, jubilat, Post Road, and McSweeney’s. She won the Henfield Prize in 1996, the Literary Death Match in 2010, and was a MacDowell Fellow in 2005. She teaches creative writing at Pratt Institute and Sarah Lawrence College.