Ottessa Moshfegh

Born May 20, 1981· Boston, MA

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Emerging from a Boston upbringing with a Croatian mother and an Iranian-Jewish father who taught music, she pursued an English degree at Barnard before completing an MFA in Literary Arts at Brown and a Wallace Stegner Fellowship at Stanford. Her literary breakthrough arrived with the novel Eileen, which earned the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award, a Booker Prize shortlist and a National Book Critics… Read more

Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources