Dawn Raffel

Dawn Raffel is an American writer. She has authored two short story collections, a novel, a memoir, and a biography. Her work has appeared in The Quarterly, NOON , edited by Diane Williams, O, The Oprah Magazine, Conjunctions , Open City, Fence, Guernica, The Antioch Review, The Mississippi Review, The Brooklyn Rail , The Anchor Book of New American Short Fiction, Micro Fictions, BOMB, and numerous other publications.

Works

• In the Year of Long Division (1995), a collection published by Alfred A. Knopf. One of the last books edited there by Gordon Lish.
• Carrying the Body (2002), a novel published by Scribner.
• Further Adventures in the Restless Universe (2010), a collection published by Dzanc Books.
• The Secret Life of Objects (2012), an illustrated memoir published by Jaded Ibis.
• The Strange Case of Dr. Couney: How a Mysterious European Showman Saved Thousands of American Babies (2018), a biography published by Blue Rider Press.

Film

• The Myth of Drowning, a film by Steven Richter, based on the short story of the same name

External links

• Official website
• Guest fiction editor in Guernica magazine
• "The Myth of Drowning," a short story in Guernica magazine
• Interview with Dawn Raffel in Big Other