Galchen, Rivka

Rivka Galchen received her MD from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, having spent a year in South America working on public health issues. Galchen completed her MFA at Columbia University, where she was a Robert Bingham Fellow. Her essay on the Many Worlds Interpretation of quantum mechanics was published in "The Believer", and she is the recipient of a 2006 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers Award. Galchen lives in New York City. She is the author of the novel "Atmospheric Disturbances."