Ottessa Moshfegh

Ottessa Moshfegh
Moshfegh at the 2015 Texas Book Festival
BornOttessa Charlotte Moshfegh
(1981-05-20) May 20, 1981
Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Occupation
  • Novelist
  • writer
NationalityAmerican
Alma materBarnard College (BA)
Brown University (MFA)
Genre
  • Fiction
  • essays
Notable worksEileen
My Year of Rest and Relaxation
PartnerLuke B. Goebel

Ottessa Charlotte Moshfegh (/ˈtɛsə ˈmɒʃfɛɡ/; born May 20, 1981) is an American author and novelist. 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. Moshfegh's subsequent novels include My Year of Rest and Relaxation, Death in Her Hands, and Lapvona.