Eliza Barry Callahan

Bio

Eliza Barry Callahan is a novelist, musician, and filmmaker from New York, NY. Her debut novel, The Hearing Test, was awarded the BARD Fiction Prize. Her writing has appeared in places including The Paris Review, BOMB, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and frieze. Her debut narrative short, The Non-Actor, stars Maya Hawke and Victoria Pedretti and premiered at Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) in North America and at Rotterdam (IFFR) in Europe in 2025. She was named a 25 New Faces of Independent Film by Filmmaker in 2025. She teaches in the writing program at Columbia University.