Ottessa Moshfegh (1981) is an American writer. Her mother comes from Croatia and her father from Iran, and they met in music school in Belgium.
Ottessa attended a graduate creative writing programme at Brown University on Rhode Island, and is a contributor to the Paris Review.
Interviews
Awards
- 2013–2015 Wallace Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University
- 2013 Plimpton Prize for Fiction from The Paris Review for her story “Bettering Myself”
- 2014 Fence Modern Prize in Prose, inaugural winner for McGlue
- 2014 Believer Book Award winner for McGlue
- 2016 Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award for Eileen
- 2016 Man Booker Prize (shortlist) for Eileen
Books
Novels
- Eileen (2015)
- My Year of Rest and Relaxation (2018)
Novellas
- McGlue (2014)
Short-story collections
- Homesick for Another World (2017)
Short stories
- “Medicine”, Vice, December 1, 2007
- “Disgust”, The Paris Review, No. 202, Fall 2012
- “Bettering Myself”, The Paris Review, No. 204 Spring 2013
- “Malibu”, Vice, July 3, 2013
- “The Weirdos”, The Paris Review, No. 206, Fall 2013
- “A Dark and Winding Road”, The Paris Review, No. 207, Winter 2013
- “No Place for Good People”, The Paris Review, No. 209, Summer 2014
- “Slumming”, The Paris Review, No. 211, Winter 2014
- “Nothing Ever Happens Here”, Granta, Issue 131, Spring 2015
- “The Surrogate”, Vice, June 5, 2015
- “Dancing in Moonlight”, The Paris Review, No. 214 Fall 2015
- “The Beach Boy”, The New Yorker, January 4, 2016
- “The Locked Room”, The Baffler, Spring 2016
Essays
- “Anything to Make You Happy”, Lucky Peach, May 2015
- “How to Shit”, The Masters Review, October 2015
