Nell Freudenberger (born April 21, 1975 in New York City) is an American novelist, essayist, and short-story writer.

[3][4] After her collection Lucky Girls was published in 2003, she received the PEN/Malamud Award, a short story prize sponsored by PEN International.

When Freudenberger's novel The Dissident appeared in 2006, she received the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize for Fiction.

In June 2010, Freudenberger was featured along with fellow writers Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Karen Russell, ZZ Packer, and Gary Shteyngart in The New Yorker's "20 Under 40 Fiction" issue.

Per the magazine, these authors represented "Twenty young writers who capture the inventiveness and the vitality of contemporary American fiction.