Nelly Reifler is an American short story writer and novelist.
[2] Reifler began her career as an assistant to Paul Auster from 1997–2005, co-editing a collection with him titled I Thought My Father Was God.
[3] Her stories have been published in various literary journals, including Failbetter, Black Book, BOMB (magazine), The Fiddleback, Sleepingfish, jubilat, Post Road, and McSweeneys.
[4] She received a Henfield Prize in 1996,[5] won a Literary Death Match in 2010, and was a MacDowell Fellow in 2005.
She teaches creative writing at the Pratt Institute[6] and at Sarah Lawrence College.