Eileen Pollack
Professional Publications & Contributions
- Maybe It’s Me: On Being the Wrong Kind of Woman, essays, Delphinium Books, 2022; paperback 2023
- The Professor of Immortality, novel, Delphinium Books, 2019; paperback 2020
- The Bible of Dirty Jokes, novel, Four Way Books, 2018
- A Perfect Life, novel, Ecco Press/HarperCollins, 2016; paperback 2017
- The Only Woman in the Room: Why Science Is Still a Boys’ Club, nonfiction, Beacon Press, 2015 (published in Korean translation as The Girl from a Parallel Universe); paperback 2016
- Creative Composition, textbook and anthology, cowritten with Jeremiah Chamberlain and Natalie Bakopoulos, Wadsworth/Cengage, preliminary version, 2013
- Breaking and Entering, novel, Four Way Books, 2012
- Creative Nonfiction: A Guide to Form, Content, and Style, with Readings, textbook and anthology, Wadsworth/Cengage, 2009
- In the Mouth, Stories and Novellas, story and novella collection, Four Way Books, 2008
- Woman Walking Ahead: In Search of Catherine Weldon and Sitting Bull, creative nonfiction, University of New Mexico Press, 2002; audio version, 2017; major motion picture starring Jessica Chastain, 2018; revised edition 2019
- Paradise, New York, novel, Temple University Press, hardback 1998, paperback 2000
- Whisper Whisper Jesse, Whisper Whisper Josh: A Story about AIDS, children's fiction, Advantage/Aurora, 1992
- The Rabbi in the Attic and Other Stories, story and novella collection, Delphinium Books, 1991
Additional Information
Eileen Pollack is the author of the novels The Professor of Immortality, The Bible of Dirty Jokes, A Perfect Life, and Breaking and Entering, named a New York Times Editor’s Choice selection, as well as two award-winning story collections, The Rabbi in the Attic and In the Mouth. Eileen’s work of creative nonfiction Woman Walking Ahead: In Search of Catherine Weldon and Sitting Bull was made into a movie starring Jessica Chastain. Her investigative memoir The Only Woman in the Room: Why Science Is Still a Boys’ Club was published in 2015; a long excerpt appeared in the New York Times Sunday Magazine and went viral.
Her work has been selected for Best American Short Stories, Best American Essays, and Best American Travel Writing. A collection of her essays, Maybe It's Me: On Being the Wrong Kind of Woman, was published in 2022. A former director of the MFA Program at the University of Michigan, she now lives and writes in Boston.