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RIVKA GALCHEN

Lecturer

Rivka Galchen received her MD from Mount Sinai School of Medicine, having spent a year in South America working on public health issues.  Her essays and stories have appeared or are forthcoming in Harper's, Zoetrope, The New Yorker, The Believer, Scientific American and The New York Times.  Her first novel, Atmospheric Disturbances was published by FSG in June 2008.