Ottessa Moshfegh is an American author, novelist, and screenwriter. Her debut novel, Eileen, published in 2015, received significant critical recognition, winning the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award and earning a shortlist position for the Booker Prize. The novel was also a fiction finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Following the success of Eileen, Moshfegh has published several subsequent novels, including My Year of Rest and Relaxation, Death in Her Hands, and Lapvona.