Rivka Galchen has a slightly unusual background for a fiction writer, having first trained as a psychiatrist and then abandoned that career path to pursue an MFA at Columbia. Her 2008 novel, Atmospheric Disturbances, showed the math of that career trajectory, because it was about a man who believes that his wife had…

At 1 p.m. EDT today, the writer Rivka Galchen will drop by Gawker to talk about her new book of short stories, American Innovations in Kinja. In the meantime prepare your questions, and you can read the first story in the collection for free here. Or her delightful nonfiction article about hurricanes here.