24 Facts About Rachel Pollack

Rachel Grace Pollack was an American science fiction author, comic book writer, and expert on divinatory tarot.

Rachel Pollack earned an honours degree in English from New York University and a master's in English from Claremont Graduate University.

Rachel Pollack wrote the 1985 book Salvador Dali's Tarot, an exposition of Salvador Dali's Tarot deck, comprising a full-page color plate for each card, with her commentary on the facing page.

Rachel Pollack created her own Tarot deck, Shining Woman Tarot.

Rachel Pollack 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.

Rachel Pollack wrote for the comic book Doom Patrol, on DC Comics' Vertigo imprint, from 1993 to 1995.

Rachel Pollack's run of issues was a continuation of a 1960s comic which had recently become a cult favorite under Grant Morrison.

Rachel 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, Rachel 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.

Peyer then used that response to that letter to officially announce that Rachel Pollack was, in fact, taking over the book.

Rachel Pollack's run ended two years later, with the book's cancellation.

Rachel Pollack's book The Body of the Goddess is an exploration of the history of the Goddess and her relation to locality and landscape.

Rachel Pollack uses the image of the Goddess in many of her works.

For 32 years, Pollack taught seminars with tarot author Mary K Greer at the Omega Institute, in Rhinebeck, New York.

Rachel Pollack 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.

Rachel Pollack was a popular lecturer at tarot seminars and symposiums such as Los Angeles Tarot Symposium, Bay Area Tarot Symposium, and the Readers Studio.

Rachel Pollack was a professor of creative writing in the Masters of Fine Arts program of Goddard College.

Rachel Pollack taught English at State University of New York.

Rachel Pollack was Jewish, and frequently wrote about the Kabbalah, most notably in The Kabbalah Tree.

Rachel Pollack was a trans woman and wrote frequently on transgender issues.

Rachel Pollack wrote several essays on transsexualism, attacking the notion that it is a "sickness", instead saying that it is a passion.

Rachel Pollack's book Tarot of Perfection is a book of fairy tales based on the tarot.

In July 2022, Rachel 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.

Rachel Pollack died from Hodgkin lymphoma on April 7,2023, at the age of 77.