Rachel
Pollack
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| Photo by Rubi Rose |
| Rachel Pollack (1945-2023) authored 41 books, including two award-winning novels, Unquenchable Fire, winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award, and Godmother Night, winner of the World Fantasy Award. She had also written a series of books about Tarot cards known around the world, a book of poetry, Fortune's Lover, and had translated, with scholar David Vine, Sophocles's 'Oedipus Tyrannus' ( "Oedipus Rex") under the title, Tyrant Oidipous. She designed and drew her own Tarot deck, The Shining Tribe Tarot. With artist Robert Place she has created two more decks, The Burning Serpent Oracle, and The Raziel Tarot. She had taught and lectured on four continents. For eleven years she taught at Goddard College's MFA writing program. Rachel lived with her wife and manager Zoe Matoff in New York's Hudson Valley. |