Eileen Pollack

Eileen Pollack was born and grew up in Liberty N.Y. the heart of the Jewish Catskills where her grandparents owned and operated a small hotel and her father was the town dentist.

A graduate of Yale University with a BS in physics Eileen later earned an MFA from the University of Iowa where she was awarded a Teaching-Writing Fellowship.She is the author of a collection of short fiction The Rabbi in the Attic and Other Stories a novel Paradise New York and a work of creative nonfiction called Woman Walking Ahead: In Search of Catherine Weldon and Sitting Bull which won a 2003 WILLA finalist award.A second collection of stories and novellas called In the Mouth was published in 2008 by Four Way Books and was named the winner of the 2008 Edward Lewis Wallant Award which is presented annually to an American writer whose published creative work of fiction is considered to have significance for the American Jew in addition to being shortlisted for the Sophie Brody Medal for Jewish literature chosen as a finalist for the Paterson Fiction Award and awarded a silver medal in ForeWord Magazine’s 2008 Book of the Year Awards.Eileen’s second novel Breaking and Entering was published in January 2012 by Four Way Books and soon after was awarded the 2012 Grub Street National Book Prize and named a New York Times Editor’s Choice selection; the novel follows the experiences of Louise and Richard Shapiro who with their young daughter Molly move from ultra-liberal Marin County California to a quaint rural town in the Midwest only to discover that most of their neighbors belong to the Michigan Militia.

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