Ottessa Moshfegh is a fiction writer from Boston. She was awarded the Plimpton Prize for her stories in The Paris Review and granted a creative writing fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. She is currently a Wallace Stegner fellow at Stanford.
Genres: Literary Fiction, Mystery
Novels
Eileen (2015)
My Year of Rest and Relaxation (2018)
Death in Her Hands (2020)
Lapvona (2022) (with Otessa Moshfegh)
My Year of Rest and Relaxation (2018)
Death in Her Hands (2020)
Lapvona (2022) (with Otessa Moshfegh)
Collections
Novellas
Ottessa Moshfegh recommends

Deep Ellum (2014)
Brandon Hobson
"Restrained, dark, and strangely silent . . . If you've ever had a homecoming laced with sadness and longing, you'll relate to [Deep Ellum]."

Liarmouth (2022)
John Waters
"I couldn't put it down, like a bomb singing me a lullaby. For fans of John's movies, this will be a delicious treat. And for the boring people who don't know what's up, good luck. Marsha is probably the funniest villain I've ever read, and I was cheering for her the whole way through. Like all of John's work, this was true comedy, he has ransacked culture for its absurdity, violence and lunacy, and yet somehow I am happier to be here after going along for the ride."
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