Eileen Pollack grew up in the Jewish Catskills, the setting for her two collections of short fiction, The Rabbi in the Attic and In The Mouth (winner of the 2008 Edward Lewis Wallant Award; Silver Medalist, ForeWord Book of the Year) and her first novel, Paradise, New York. She is also the author of a work of creative nonfiction, Woman Walking Ahead: In Search of Catherine Weldon and Sitting Bull (a 2003 WILLA finalist award winner). Eileen Pollack has received fellowships from the NEA, the Michener Foundation, and the Rona Jaffe Foundation. Her stories have appeared in journals such as Ploughshares, SubTropics, and Agni. Her novella "The Bris" was chosen by Stephen King for Best American Short Stories 2007. Her stories have received two Pushcart Prizes, the Cohen Award for best fiction of the year from Ploughshares, and similar awards from Literary Review and Michigan Quarterly Review. Breaking and Entering is her second novel, and won the 2012 Grub Street Book Prize. Eileen Pollack is the Zell Director of the MFA Program in Creative Writing at the University of Michigan and lives in Ann Arbor.

Books by Eileen Pollack

Breaking and Entering

by Eileen Pollack - Family, Fiction, Historical Fiction

Set against the tragic events of the Oklahoma City bombings, Breaking and Entering follows Christian/Jewish couple Louise and Richard Shapiro as they move from California to rural Michigan with their daughter Molly in an attempt to save their marriage.