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Nelly Reifler

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Nelly Reifler is an American short story writer and novelist. She is perhaps best known for her short fiction collection See Through,[1] and her debut novel Elect H. Mouse State Judge, published by Faber and Faber in August 2013.[2]

Reifler began her career as an assistant to Paul Auster from 1997–2005, co-editing a collection with him titled I Thought My Father Was God.[3] Her stories have been published in various literary journals, including Failbetter, Black Book, BOMB (magazine), The Fiddleback, Sleepingfish, jubilat, Post Road, and McSweeneys.[4] She received a Henfield Prize in 1996,[5] won a Literary Death Match in 2010, and was a MacDowell Fellow in 2005.

She teaches creative writing at the Pratt Institute[6] and at Sarah Lawrence College.[7]

Partial bibliography

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"Elect H. Mouse State Judge: A Novel" Faber & Faber (August 6, 2013) ISBN 9780865477650

"See Through: Stories" Simon & Schuster (August 26, 2003) ISBN 9780743236089

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