Nelly Reifler

Who is Nelly Reifler?

Nelly Reifler is an American short story writer and novelist. She is perhaps best known for her short fiction collection See Through, and her debut novel Elect H. Mouse State Judge, published by Faber and Faber in August 2013.

Reifler began her career as an assistant to Paul Auster from 1997–2005, and co-edited a collection with him called I Though My Father Was God. She has had stories published in a variety of literary journals including Failbetter, The Fiddleback, Sleepingfish, jubilat, Post Road and multiple publications in McSweeneys. She received a Henfield Prize in 1996, won a Literary Death Match in 2010, and was a MacDowell Fellow in 2005. She teaches creative writing at the Pratt Institute and at Sarah Lawrence College.