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
Guest fiction editor in Guernica magazine
"The Myth of Drowning," a short story in Guernica magazine
Interview with Dawn Raffel in Big Other
References
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) 20th-century American women writers 21st-century American women writers 20th-century American short story writers 21st-century American novelists 21st-century American memoirists 21st-century American biographers 21st-century American short story writers American women short story writers American women novelists American women memoirists American women biographers