He is the author of the novels Don’t Let My Baby Do Rodeo (2016) and A Replacement Life (2014), and Savage Feast (2019).
[2] He holds a BA in Russian literature from Princeton University and has written works of non-fiction and literary criticism.
Fishman is the author of the novel A Replacement Life, a 2014 New York Times Notable Book of the Year and won the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award and the American Library Association's Sophie Brody Medal.
[3] The novel tells the story of a young Jewish-Soviet immigrant who assists his grandfather in defrauding the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany until they are caught.
Having taught in Princeton University's Creative Writing Program from 2015 to 2020, Boris recently began teaching in the MFA program at the University of Montana in Missoula, Montana, where he lives with his wife and daughter.