Rachel Pollack

{{Infobox person

| name = Rachel Pollack

| image =

| birth_date = {{birth date|1945|8|17}}

| birth_place = New York City, U.S.

| alma_mater = New York University
Claremont Graduate University

| death_date = {{death date and age|2023|4|7|1945|8|17}}

| death_place = Rhinebeck, New York, U.S.

| occupation = Author

| notable_works = Unquenchable Fire
Doom Patrol (issues 64–87)

| style = Magical realism

| spouse = {{marriage|Zoe Matoff|2022}}

}}

Rachel Grace Pollack (August 17, 1945 – April 6, 2023) was an American science fiction author, comic book writer, and expert on divinatory tarot.

Early life and education

Pollack was born on August 17, 1945, in Brooklyn, New York to a Jewish family.{{cite news |last1=Barnett |first1=David |title=Rachel Pollack, trans activist and comic book writer, dies aged 77 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/apr/08/rachel-pollack-trans-activist-and-comic-book-writer-dies-aged-77 |work=The Observer |date=April 8, 2023}} She earned an honours degree in English from New York University and a master's in English from Claremont Graduate University.

Career

=Tarot reading=

Pollack wrote the 1985 book Salvador Dali's Tarot, an exposition of Salvador Dalí's Tarot deck, comprising a full-page color plate for each card, with her commentary on the facing page.{{cite book | last = Pollack | first = Rachel | title = Salvador Dali's Tarot | publisher = Salem House | location = Salem, New Hampshire | year = 1985 | isbn = 0-88162-076-9}} Her work 78 Degrees of Wisdom on Tarot reading is commonly referenced by Tarot readers.{{cite web | title= Llewellyn.com | url= http://www.llewellyn.com/bookstore/author.php?id=40020&affiliate=HL5X4 | access-date= April 8, 2008 | archive-date= September 23, 2007 | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20070923075316/http://www.llewellyn.com/bookstore/author.php?id=40020&affiliate=HL5X4 | url-status= dead }} She created her own Tarot deck, Shining Woman Tarot (later Shining Tribe Tarot).{{cite web

| title = Shining Tribe Tarot

| url = http://www.aeclectic.net/tarot/cards/shining-tribe/

| access-date = April 15, 2008

}} She also aided in the creation of the Vertigo Tarot Deck with illustrator Dave McKean and author Neil Gaiman, and she wrote a book to accompany it.{{cite web

| title = Vertigo Tarot

| url = http://www.elsewhere.org/tarot/vertigo/

| access-date = April 15, 2008

}} Gaiman sometimes consulted Pollack on the tarot for his stories.{{cite news |last=Davis |first=Erik |url=http://www.techgnosis.com/gaiman.html |title=The Gods of the Funny Books: An Interview with Neil Gaiman and Rachel Pollack |work=Gnosis |year=1994 |access-date=November 22, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120529061952/http://www.techgnosis.com/gaiman.html |archive-date=May 29, 2012 }}

=Comics=

Pollack wrote for the comic book Doom Patrol, on DC Comics' Vertigo imprint, from 1993 to 1995. Her run of issues (64–87){{cite web

| title = Doom Patrol

| url = http://www.rachelpollack.com/writing/index.html#comics

| access-date = April 15, 2008

}} was a continuation of a 1960s comic which had recently become a cult favorite under Grant Morrison. Pollack took over the series in 1993 after meeting editor Tom Peyer at a party, telling him it was the only monthly comic book she would want to write at the time, and sending him a sample script. Towards the end of Morrison's run, Pollack began writing monthly "letters to the editor" in what she describes as a "gee-whiz fangirl" voice asking to take over the book when Morrison was finished. In the final letter, she claims that she had already told her mother that she had been given the job. Peyer then used that response to that letter to officially announce that Pollack was, in fact, taking over the book.{{cite book |last=Pollack |first=Rachel |date=2019 |title=The Beatrix Gates Plus... |publisher=PM Press |chapter="Radical, Sacred, Hopefully Magical" Outspoken Interview with Rachel Pollack |pages=99–100 |isbn=978-1-62963-578-1}}

During her tenure, Pollack dealt with such rarely addressed comic book topics as menstruation, sexual identity, and transsexuality. Her run ended two years later, with the book's cancellation.{{cite news |last1=Williamson |first1=Harriet |title=Trailblazing trans DC Comics writer Rachel Pollack dies aged 77 |url=https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/04/08/rachel-pollack-death-dc-comics-trans-writer/ |work=PinkNews |date=April 8, 2023}}

In addition to Doom Patrol, Pollack wrote issues of the Vertigo Visions anthology featuring Brother Power the Geek (1993) and Tomahawk (1998), the first 11 issues of the fourth volume of New Gods (1995), and the five-issue limited series Time Breakers (1996) for the short lived Helix imprint.{{cite news |last1=Cronin |first1=Brian |title=Rachel Pollack, Trailblazing Doom Patrol Writer, Dies at 77 |url=https://www.cbr.com/rachel-pollack-doom-patrol-obituary/ |work=CBR |date=April 7, 2023 |language=en}}

In 2019, it was announced that Pollack was reuniting with Doom Patrol artist Richard Case and letterer John Workman to create a short story—titled "Snake Song"—for the Kickstarter funded "music-themed horror anthology" Dead Beats.{{cite web |url=https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/tylerchintanner/dead-beats/description |title=Dead Beats By Tyler & Wendy Chin-Tanner |date=April 9, 2019 |website=Kickstarter |access-date=April 23, 2019 |quote=Notably, the book includes a reunion of Doom Patrol alums Rachel Pollack and Richard Case, working together for the first time in more than 25 years! }}{{cite web |url=https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/tylerchintanner/dead-beats/posts/2484995 |title=Rachel Pollack Signed Bookplates, Bigger Doom Patrol Reunion, and New Artwork! |last=Corallo |first=Joe |date=April 19, 2019 |website=Kickstarter |access-date=April 23, 2019 |quote=We are also absolutely thrilled to announce that our Doom Patrol reunion just got even bigger! Legendary and award winning comics letterer John Workman, whose work includes having lettered Doom Patrol for all of Grant Morrison and Rachel Pollack's runs, will be lettering Rachel Pollack and Richard Case's story in Dead Beats, Snake Song! He's excited to be part of this reunion and we hope you're excited he's on board too!}}

In 2024, DC Comics published "DC Pride: A Celebration of Rachel Pollack" reprinting issue 70 of "Doom Patrol" and issue 1 of "Vertigo Visions: The Geek #1 'Homelands of the Dolls'" as well as an introductory tribute by Stuart Moore and a new story, "Shining Through the Wreckage" revisiting Pollack's Doom Patrol character Coagula written by Joe Corallo.

=Fiction=

Three of Pollack's novels won or were nominated for major awards in the science fiction and fantasy field: Unquenchable Fire won the 1989 Arthur C. Clarke Award; Godmother Night won the 1997 World Fantasy Award, was shortlisted for the James Tiptree Jr. Award, and was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Literature; while Temporary Agency was nominated for the 1995 Nebula Award and the Mythopoeic Award, and shortlisted for the Tiptree.{{cite web|url=http://www.sfadb.com/Rachel_Pollack|title=Rachel Pollack Awards|publisher=Science Fiction Awards Database|access-date=April 9, 2023}}

Her magical realism{{cite web | url=http://www.glbtfantasy.com/?section=fantasy&auth=Rachel+Pollack | access-date = September 19, 2008 | title = GLBT Fantasy review of Godmother Night}} novels explore worlds imbued with elements pulled from a number of traditions, faiths, and religions. Several of her novels are set in an alternative reality that resembles modern America, but an America of Bright Beings, where magic and ritual, religion and thaumaturgy are the norms.{{cite web|title=Temporary Agency |url=http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/l.j.hurst/rp_tempagy.htm |access-date=September 6, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080509155406/http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/l.j.hurst/rp_tempagy.htm |archive-date=May 9, 2008 }}

Her short work "Burning Beard: The Dreams and Visions of Joseph ben Jacob, Lord Viceroy of Egypt" was published in 2007 in the anthology Interfictions: An Anthology of Interstitial Writing, edited by Theodora Goss and Delia Sherman.{{cite book |title=Interfictions: An Anthology of Interstitial Writing |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=J48jfr0fuWIC | isbn=9781931520249 |access-date=14 April 2023 | last1=Sherman | first1=Delia | last2=Goss | first2=Theodora | year=2007 | publisher=Small Beer Press }} It was reprinted online in Lightspeed in May 2014.{{cite web |url= https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/burning-beard-the-dreams-and-visions-of-joseph-ben-jacob-lord-viceroy-of-egypt/|title=Burning Beard: The Dreams and Visions of Joseph ben Jacob, Lord Viceroy of Egypt|website=Lightspeed Magazine|date=May 6, 2014 |access-date=14 April 2023}}

=Nonfiction=

Pollack's book The Body of the Goddess is an exploration of the history of the Goddess and her relation to locality and landscape.{{cite book |last1=Reid-Bowen |first1=Paul |title=Goddess as Nature: Towards a Philosophical Thealogy |date=2016 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-317-12634-8 |page=109 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DG8GDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA109 |language=en}} Pollack uses the image of the Goddess in many of her works.{{cite journal |last1=Chase |first1=Christopher W. |title=Paul Reid-Bowen, Goddess As Nature: Towards a Philosophical Theaiogy (Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, 2007) |journal=The Pomegranate |date=2009 |volume=11 |issue=2 |url=https://journal.equinoxpub.com/POM/article/download/2865/2985}}

=Teaching=

For 32 years, Pollack taught seminars with tarot author Mary K. Greer at the Omega Institute, in Rhinebeck, New York. She also did seminars for several years in California in conjunction with Greer, and she co-presented a breakthrough seminar with author Johanna Gargiulo-Sherman on tarot and psychic ability, using her own Shining Tribe Tarot and Gargiulo-Sherman's Sacred Rose Tarot. Pollack was also a popular lecturer at tarot seminars and symposiums such as Los Angeles Tarot Symposium, Bay Area Tarot Symposium, and the Readers Studio.

She was a professor of creative writing in the Masters of Fine Arts program of Goddard College.{{cite journal |last1=Hoffman |first1=Cara |title=Rachel Pollack is Willing to Change Everything - Issue 380 - Fifth Estate Magazine |journal=Fifth Estate |date=2009 |issue=380 |url=https://www.fifthestate.org/archive/380-spring-2009/rachel-pollack-willing-change-everything/}} She taught English at State University of New York.{{cite news |last1=Chiu-Tabet |first1=Christopher |title=Rachel Pollack, "Doom Patrol" Writer, Dead at 77 |url=http://www.multiversitycomics.com/news/rachel-pollack-obit/ |work=Multiversity Comics |date=April 7, 2023 |language=en}}

Influences

Pollack was Jewish,{{cite web | title = New Worlds Article | url = http://www.llewellyn.com/bookstore/article.php?id=644 | access-date = September 6, 2008 | archive-date = July 4, 2007 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070704034807/http://www.llewellyn.com/bookstore/article.php?id=644 | url-status = dead }} and frequently wrote about the Kabbalah, most notably in The Kabbalah Tree.

She was a trans woman and wrote frequently on transgender issues.{{cite book | last = Valerio | first = Max Wolf | title = The Testosterone Files: My Hormonal and Social Transformation from Female to Male | publisher = Seal Press | year = 2006 | location = Berkeley | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=9XEwxy3XARgC | isbn = 1-58005-173-1 | page = 147}}{{cite book | last = Israel | first = Gianna E. |author2=Tarver II |author3=Donald E. | title = Transgender Care: Recommended Guidelines, Practical Information & Personal Accounts | publisher = Temple University Press | year = 2001 | location = Philadelphia | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=IlPX6E5glDEC&q=Rachel+Pollack+transsexual&pg=RA1-PA269 | isbn = 1-56639-852-5 | page = 269}} In Doom Patrol she introduced Coagula, a transsexual character. She also wrote several essays on transsexualism, attacking the notion that it is a "sickness", instead saying that it is a passion.Pollack, Rachel. [https://web.archive.org/web/20080705185602/http://www.annelawrence.com/twr/archetypal.html "Archetypal Transsexuality."] Retrieved October 20, 2008. She emphasized the revelatory aspects of transsexualism, saying that "the {{sic|trance-sexual}} woman sacrifices her social identity as a male, her personal history, and finally the very shape of her body to a knowledge, a desire, which overpowers all rational understanding and proof."Pollack, Rachel. [https://books.google.com/books?id=KNLrAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA6 "Abandonment to the Body's Desire."] In: 'Balancing on the Mechitza: Transgender in Jewish Community.' Retrieved April 6, 2020.

A Secret Woman features a police detective who is transgender and Jewish. The detective utters the prayer, "Blessed art thou oh G-d who made me not a woman. Double blessed is Doctor Green who has."Pollack, Rachel. A Secret Woman: A Mystery. New York: St. Martin's Minotaur, 2002. Pollack created the characters known as 'the bandage people' for her Doom Patrol run. The bandage people are 'sexually remaindered spirits' who died in sexual accidents. The initials SRS came from the medical term 'sex reassignment surgery'. Pollack's essay "The Transsexual Book of The Dead: Osiris and the Trance Man", written for the anthology Phallus Palace, addresses the Osiris myth and "reconfigures Egyptian mythology into a multi-layered map for transsexual experience."{{cite journal |last1=Valerio |first1=Max Wolf |title=Peering Inside the Phallus Palace |journal=FTMi Newsletter |date=2002 |issue=52 |page=15 |url=https://www.digitaltransgenderarchive.net/downloads/5q47rn72z}}{{Cite book |last=Kotula |first=Dean |url=http://archive.org/details/phalluspalacefem0000kotu |title=The phallus palace : female to male transsexuals |date=2002 |publisher=Los Angeles, Calif.: Alyson Books |others=Internet Archive |isbn=978-1-55583-654-2 |pages=131–146 |language=en}}

Fairy tales such as the Brothers Grimm influenced many of Pollack's writings. Her book Tarot of Perfection is a book of fairy tales based on the tarot.{{cite news |last1=Jensen |first1=Marjorie |title=Five essential books of tarot fiction |url=https://www.spiralnature.com/culture/five-essential-books-tarot-fiction/ |work=Spiral Nature Magazine |date=November 29, 2017}}

Personal life

In July 2022, Pollack revealed via Facebook that, after seemingly overcoming Hodgkin lymphoma several years earlier, she had been diagnosed with a different variant of lymphoma and would be undergoing chemotherapy.{{Cite web |last=Johnston |first=Rich |date=2022-09-01 |title=Rachel Pollack Appeal By Neil Gaiman, Gail Simone, Shelly Bond & More |url=https://bleedingcool.com/comics/rachel-pollock-appeal-by-neil-gaiman-gail-simone-shelly-bond-more/ |access-date=2023-03-17 |website=Bleeding Cool |language=en}} In August, Pollack's wife Zoe Matoff and Patricia Nolan announced that Pollack was in an intensive care unit and started a GoFundMe fundraiser for her medical expenses.{{Cite web |last=Schreur |first=Brandon |date=2022-08-26 |title=Doom Patrol Writer Rachel Pollack in ICU, GoFundMe Launched for Medical Bill Help |url=https://www.cbr.com/doom-patrol-writer-rachel-pollack-icu-gofundme-launched-medical-bill-help/ |access-date=2023-03-17 |website=CBR |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=Anderson |first=Jenna |date=Aug 26, 2022 |title=Doom Patrol and New Gods Writer Rachel Pollack Hospitalized |url=https://comicbook.com/dc/news/doom-patrol-new-gods-writer-rachel-pollack-hospitalized-icu/ |access-date=2023-03-17 |website=ComicBook.com |language=en}} Those who shared the fundraiser on Twitter included Neil Gaiman, Shelly Bond, Gail Simone, and DC Comics editors Chris Conroy and Andrea Shay, while prominent donors included Rachel Gold, Al Ewing, Kieron Gillen, Kim Newman, Brett Booth, and Cliff Chiang, ultimately raising over $28,000 against a $15,000 goal by September.

On March 12, 2023, Gaiman announced on Instagram and Mastodon, at the behest of Pollack's wife, that Pollack was in hospice care and nearing the end of her life. This led some outlets to mistakenly report that Pollack had already died. She was 77 years old.{{Cite web |last=Stratis |first=Niko |date=2023-03-16 |title=Gutter Talk: Portents of Doom Patrol |url=https://www.autostraddle.com/gutter-talk-portents-of-doom-patrol/ |access-date=2023-03-17 |website=Autostraddle |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |last=Coke |first=Travis Hedge |date=2023-03-16 |title=The Transcendental Love of Rachel Pollack |url=https://comic-watch.com/featured/patricia-highsmash/the-transcendental-love-of-rachel-pollack |access-date=2023-03-17 |website=Comic Watch |language=en-US}}

Pollack died from Hodgkin lymphoma on April 7, 2023, at the age of 77.{{cite news|title=Rachel Pollack, Transgender Activist and Authority on Tarot, Dies at 77|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/13/arts/rachel-pollack-dead.html|date=April 13, 2023 | newspaper=The New York Times|last1=Gustines|first1=George Gene|access-date=April 13, 2023}}{{cite news |last1=Marston |first1=George |title=Comic and Tarot icon Rachel Pollack dies |url=https://www.gamesradar.com/comic-and-tarot-icon-rachel-pollack-dies/ |work=GamesRadar |date=April 7, 2023 |language=en}}

Awards and memberships

1997 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel winner for Godmother Night{{cite web|author=World Fantasy Convention |year=2010 |title=Award Winners and Nominees |url=http://www.worldfantasy.org/awards/awardslist.html/ |access-date=February 4, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101201074405/http://worldfantasy.org/awards/awardslist.html |archive-date=December 1, 2010 }}
1994 Nebula Award for Best Novel nominee for Temporary Agency{{cite web |title=Rachel Pollack: Past Nominations and Wins |url=https://nebulas.sfwa.org/nominees/rachel-pollack/ |website=The Nebula Awards |publisher=Science Fictions & Fantasy Writers of America |access-date=April 9, 2023}}
1989 Arthur C. Clarke Award winner for Unquenchable Fire{{cite web |title=Winners and Shortlists |url=https://clarkeaward.com/#about |website=The Arthur C. Clarke Award |access-date=April 9, 2023 |language=en}}
Certified Tarot Grand Master (CTGM) with the Tarot Certification Board of America{{cite web | title=Women In Tarot | url=http://www.aeclectic.net/tarot/learn/women_pollack.shtml | access-date=April 16, 2008 | archive-date=April 23, 2008 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080423052413/http://www.aeclectic.net/tarot/learn/women_pollack.shtml | url-status=dead }}
Tarot Sage (TS) with the American Board For Tarot Certification
member of the American Tarot Association (ATA)
member of the International Tarot Society (ITS)
member of the Tarot Guild of Australia
member of the Tarot Association of the British Isles.
member of the Tarosophy Tarot Association

Published works

=Non-fiction books=

{{cite book | last = Anderson | first = Hilary | title = New Thoughts on Tarot | publisher = Newcastle Pub. Co | location = North Hollywood | year = 1989 | isbn = 0-87877-139-5 }}{{cite web| title=biblio.com| url=http://www.biblio.com/author_biographies/2045874/Rachel_Pollack.html| archive-url=https://archive.today/20130118043816/http://www.biblio.com/author_biographies/2045874/Rachel_Pollack.html| url-status=dead| archive-date=January 18, 2013| access-date=April 15, 2008}}
{{cite book | last = Hillman | first = James | title = Marriages: Spring 60, a Journal of Archetype and Culture | publisher = Continuum International Publishing Group | location = City | year = 1997 | isbn = 1-882670-09-4 }}
{{cite book | last = Livernois | first = Jay | title = Archetypal Sex: Spring : a Journal of Archetype and Culture | publisher = Spring Publications | location = Irving | year = 1996 | isbn = 1-882670-05-1 }}
{{cite book | last = Mckean | first = Dave | title = Bento | publisher = Allen Spiegel Fine Arts | location = Pacific Grove | year = 2001 | isbn = 0-9642069-4-3 }}
{{cite book | last = Pollack | first = Rachel | title = Salvador Dali's Tarot | publisher = Salem House | location = Salem, New Hampshire | year = 1985 | isbn = 0-88162-076-9}}
{{cite book | last = Pollack | first = Rachel | title = Tarot | publisher = Aquarian Press | location = Wellingborough | year = 1986 | isbn = 0-85030-465-2 }}
{{cite book | last = Pollack | first = Rachel | title = Teach Yourself Fortune Telling | publisher = Henry Holt & Company | location = New York | year = 1986 | isbn = 0-8050-0125-5 }}
{{cite book | last = Pollack | first = Rachel | title = The Haindl Tarot | url = https://archive.org/details/haindltarot00poll | url-access = registration | publisher = Newcastle Publishing Company | location = City | year = 1990 | isbn = 0-87877-156-5 }}
{{cite book | last = Pollack | first = Rachel | title = The Haindl Tarot: the Major Arcana | url = https://archive.org/details/haindltarot00poll | url-access = registration | publisher = Newcastle Publishing Company | location = City | year = 1990 | isbn = 0-87877-155-7 }}
{{cite book | last = Pollack | first = Rachel | title = The New Tarot | publisher = Overlook Hardcover | location = City | year = 1990 | isbn = 0-87951-395-0 }}
{{cite book | last = Pollack | first = Rachel | title = Tarot Readings and Meditations | publisher = Thorsons Pub | location = London | year = 1991 | isbn = 1-85538-049-8 }}
Pollack, Rachel (1993) Shining Woman Tarot. U.S. Games Systems. ISBN 1855380986
{{cite book | last = Pollack | first = Rachel | title = The Journey out | publisher = Viking | location = New York | year = 1995 | isbn = 0-14-037254-7 }}
{{cite book | last = Pollack | first = Rachel | title = The Body of the Goddess | publisher = Element Books | location = Tisbury | year = 1997 | isbn = 1-85230-871-0 }}
{{cite book | last = Pollack | first = Rachel | title = Seventy-Eight Degrees of Wisdom | publisher = Thorsons Publishers | location = New York | year = 1998 | isbn = 0-7225-3572-4 }}
{{cite book | last = Pollack | first = Rachel | title = The Power of Ritual | publisher = Dell | location = New York | year = 2000 | isbn = 0-440-50872-X }}
{{cite book | last = Pollack | first = Rachel | title = The Shining Tribe Tarot | publisher = Llewellyn Publications | location = Saint Paul | year = 2001 | isbn = 1-56718-514-2 }}
{{cite book | last = Pollack | first = Rachel | title = The Shining Tribe Tarot, Revised and Expanded | publisher = Llewellyn Publications | location = Saint Paul | year = 2001 | isbn = 1-56718-532-0 }}
{{cite book | last = Pollack | first = Rachel | title = Complete Illustrated Guide to Tarot | publisher = Element Books Ltd | location = City | year = 2002 | isbn = 0-00-713115-1 }}
{{Cite book | last = Pollack | first = Rachel | title = The Forest Of Souls: A Walk Through The Tarot | publisher = Llewellyn Publications | location = Saint Paul, Minnesota | year = 2002 | isbn = 1567185339 }}
{{cite book | last = Pollack | first = Rachel | title = The Kabbalah Tree | publisher = Llewellyn Publications | location = Saint Paul | year = 2004 | isbn = 0-7387-0507-1 }}
{{cite book | last = Pollack | first = Rachel | title = Seeker | publisher = Llewellyn Publications | location = Saint Paul | year = 2005 | isbn = 0-7387-0521-7 }}
{{cite book | last = Robbins | first = Trina | title = Eternally Bad | publisher = Book Sales | location = City | year = 2002 | isbn = 0-7858-1565-1 }}
{{cite book | last = Pollack | first = Rachel | title = Tarot Wisdom | publisher = Llewellyn Publications | location = Saint Paul | year = 2008 | isbn = 978-0-73871-309-0 }}

=Novels=

{{cite book | title = Golden Vanity | last = Pollack | first = Rachel | year = 1980}}
{{cite book | last = Pollack | first = Rachel | title = Alqua Dreams | url = https://archive.org/details/alquadreams00poll | url-access = registration | publisher = F. Watts | location = New York | year = 1987 | isbn = 0-531-15070-4 }}
{{cite book |title=Unquenchable Fire |last=Pollack |first=Rachel |year=1988}}{{cite web | title=The Shining Tribe | url = http://www.rachelpollack.com/writing/index.html | access-date=November 19, 2008}}
{{cite book | last = Pollack | first = Rachel | title = Temporary Agency | publisher = St Martins Pr | location = City | year = 1994 | isbn = 0-312-11077-4 }}
{{cite book | last = Pollack | first = Rachel | title = Godmother Night | url = https://archive.org/details/godmothernightno00poll | url-access = registration | publisher = St. Martin's Press | location = New York | year = 1996 | isbn = 0-312-14606-X }}
{{cite book | last = Pollack | first = Rachel | title = A Secret Woman | url = https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780312246594 | url-access = registration | publisher = St. Martin's Minotaur | location = New York | year = 2002 | isbn = 0-312-24659-5 }}
{{cite book | last = Pollack | first = Rachel | title = The Child Eater | url = https://archive.org/details/childeater0000poll_e7a9 | url-access = registration | publisher = Jo Fletcher Books | location = London | year = 2015 | isbn = 978-1-623-65460-3 }}
{{cite book | last = Pollack | first = Rachel | title = The Fissure King: A Novel in Five Stories | url = https://archive.org/details/isbn_9781630230128 | url-access = registration | publisher = Underland Press | year = 2017 }}

=Collections=

{{cite book | last = Pollack | first = Rachel | title = Burning Sky | publisher = Cambrian Publications | year = 1998 | isbn = 1-878914-04-9 }}{{cite web | title=Internet Science Fiction Data Base | website = isfdb.org | url = http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?Rachel_Pollack | access-date=April 15, 2008}}
{{cite book | last = Pollack | first = Rachel | title = The Tarot of Perfection: A Book of Tarot Tales | url = https://archive.org/details/isbn_9781905572090 | url-access = registration | publisher = Magic Realist Press | location = New York | year = 2008| isbn = 978-1-905572-09-0 }}
{{cite book | last = Pollack | first = Rachel | title = The Beatrix Gates: plus The woman who didn't come back, plus Trans central station, and much more | publisher = PM Press | location = Oakland | year = 2019| isbn = 978-1-62963-578-1 }}

=Anthologies=

{{cite book | last = Pollack | first = Rachel | title = Tarot Tales | publisher = Ace Books | location = New York | year = 1996 | isbn = 0-441-00352-4 |author2=Caitlin Matthews}}

=Short fiction=

{{cite book | last = Pollack | first = Rachel | title = Pandora's Bust | year = 1971}}
{{cite book | last = Pollack | first = Rachel | title = Tubs of Slaw | year = 1973}}
{{cite book | last = Pollack | first = Rachel | title = Black Rose and White Rose | year = 1975}}
{{cite book | last = Pollack | first = Rachel | title = Is Your Child Using Drugs? Seven Ways to Recognize a Drug Addict | year = 1976}}
{{cite book | last = Pollack | first = Rachel | title = Angel Baby | year = 1982}}
{{cite book | last = Pollack | first = Rachel | title = The Malignant One | year = 1984}}
{{cite book | last = Pollack | first = Rachel | title = The Girl Who Went to the Rich Neighbourhood | year = 1984}}
{{cite book | last = Pollack | first = Rachel | title = Tree House | year = 1984}}
{{cite book | last = Pollack | first = Rachel | title = Lands of Stone | year = 1984}}
{{cite book | last = Pollack | first = Rachel | title = The Protector | year = 1986}}
{{cite book | last = Pollack | first = Rachel | title = The Bead Woman | year = 1989}}
{{cite book | last = Pollack | first = Rachel | title = Knower of Birds | year = 1989}}
{{cite book | last = Pollack | first = Rachel | title = Burning Sky | year = 1989}}
{{cite book | last = Pollack | first = Rachel | title = The Woman Who Didn't Come Back | year = 1990}}
{{cite book | last = Pollack | first = Rachel | title = General All-Purpose Fairy Tale | year = 1990}}
{{cite book | last = Pollack | first = Rachel | title = Making Good Time | year = 1997 |author2=James Patrick Kelly |author3=Pat Cadigan |author4=Nancy Kress }}
{{cite book | last = Pollack | first = Rachel | title = The Fool, the Stick, and the Princess | year = 1998}}
{{cite book | last = Pollack | first = Rachel | title = The Younger Brother | year = 2001}}
{{cite book | last = Pollack | first = Rachel | title = Delusions of Universal Grandeur | year = 2003}}
{{cite book | last = Pollack | first = Rachel | title = Reminiscences | year = 2003 |author2=Michael Cisco |author3=Jeffrey Thomas |author4=Eric G. Schaller |author5=K. J. Bishop |author6=Stepan Chapman |author7=Richard Calder |author8=R. F. Wexler}}
{{cite book | last = Pollack | first = Rachel | title = Immortal Snake | year = 2008}}
{{Cite journal | last = Pollack | first = Rachel | title = Forever |journal=Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction |date=May 2010}}

=Poetry=

The Wild Cows (1993)
Fortune's Lover (May 2009). A Midsummer Night's Press

=Essays=

"Introduction: A Machine for Constructing Stories" (1989)
Read This (The New York Review of Science Fiction, October 1991) (1991)
Read This (The New York Review of Science Fiction, July 1995) (1995)
Read This (The New York Review of Science Fiction, August 1996) (1996)
{{Cite journal | last = Pollack | first = Rachel | title = Death and Its Afterlives In the Tarot | journal = Parabola }}

=Reviews=

The Book of Embraces (1991) by Eduardo Galeano
Outside the Dog Museum (1992) by Jonathan Carroll
Coelestis [vt Celestis](1996) by Paul Park

=Comics=

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| Title = Doom Patrol

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| Issue = 64–87

| Date = 1993–1995

| Publisher = Vertigo

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{{Cite comic

| Writer = Rachel Pollack

| Cowriters = Tom Peyer

| Penciller = Luke Ross

| Inker = Brian Garvey

| Story =

| Title = New Gods

| Volume = 4

| Issue = 1–11

| Date = 1995–1996

| Publisher = DC Comics

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{{Cite comic

| Writer = Rachel Pollack

| Artist = Chris Weston

| Story =

| Title = Time Breakers

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| Issue = 1–5

| date = 1995

| Publisher = Helix

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{{Cite comic

| Writer = Rachel Pollack

| Artist = Thomas Yeates

| Story =

| Title = Vertigo Visions: Tomahawk

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| Issue = 1

| date = 1998

| Publisher = Vertigo

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References

External links

{{Official website|http://www.rachelpollack.com}}
{{ISFDB name|id=Rachel_Pollack}}
[http://www.aeclectic.net/tarot/books/78-degrees-of-wisdom/ Reviews of 78 Degrees of Wisdom]
[https://web.archive.org/web/20140727081855/http://upcoming4.me/news/book-news/the-story-behind-the-child-eater-by-rachel-pollack The story behind The Child Eater – Online Essay by Rachel Pollack] at Upcoming4.me

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