Rivka Galchen (born April 19, 1976) is a Canadian American writer.

Her first novel, Atmospheric Disturbances, was published in 2008 and was awarded the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing.

[5] After medical school, she earned a MFA in 2006 from Columbia University, where she was a Robert Bingham fellow.

[14] Galchen served as the Mary Ellen von der Heyden Fiction Fellow for the Spring 2011 term at the American Academy in Berlin.

[17][18][19][20][21] It was longlisted for the 2014 Scotiabank Giller Prize[22] and received the Danuta Gleed Literary Award.