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{{Short description|American writer (1945–2023)}}
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{{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]]<br/>[[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]]''<br />''[[Doom Patrol]]'' (issues 64–87)
| style = [[Magical realism]]
| spouse = {{marriage|Zoe Matoff|2022}}<ref name="nyt" />
}}

'''Rachel Grace Pollack''' <!-- Do not include birth name per MOS:DEADNAME --> (August 17, 1945 – April 7, 2023) was an American [[science fiction]] author, [[Script (comics)|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.<ref>{{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}}</ref> She earned an honours degree in English from [[New York University]] and a master's in English from [[Claremont Graduate University]].<ref name="biblio" />

== 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.<ref>{{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}}</ref> Her work ''78 Degrees of Wisdom'' on [[Tarot card reading|Tarot reading]] is commonly referenced by Tarot readers.<ref name="classic">{{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 }}</ref> She created her own Tarot deck, ''Shining Woman Tarot'' (later ''Shining Tribe Tarot'').<ref name="Shining Tribe Tarot">{{cite web 
| title = Shining Tribe Tarot
| url = http://www.aeclectic.net/tarot/cards/shining-tribe/
| access-date = April 15, 2008
}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite web 
| title = Vertigo Tarot
| url = http://www.elsewhere.org/tarot/vertigo/
| access-date = April 15, 2008
}}</ref> Gaiman sometimes consulted Pollack on the tarot for his stories.<ref name="joint">{{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 }}</ref>

===Comics===
Pollack wrote for the comic book ''[[Doom Patrol]]'', on [[DC Comics]]' [[Vertigo (DC Comics)|Vertigo]] imprint, from 1993 to 1995. Her run of issues (64–87)<ref>{{cite web 
| title = Doom Patrol
| url = http://www.rachelpollack.com/writing/index.html#comics
| access-date = April 15, 2008
}}</ref> 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 [[Fan (person)|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.<ref>{{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}}</ref>

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.<ref>{{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}}</ref>

In addition to ''Doom Patrol'', Pollack wrote issues of the ''Vertigo Visions'' anthology featuring [[Brother Power the Geek]] (1993) and [[Tomahawk (comics)|Tomahawk]] (1998), the [[New Gods#Volume 4 (1995-97)|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 (comics)|Helix]] imprint.<ref name="CBR">{{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}}</ref>

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''.<ref>{{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! }}</ref><ref>{{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!}}</ref>

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 [[Otherwise Award|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.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sfadb.com/Rachel_Pollack|title=Rachel Pollack Awards|publisher=Science Fiction Awards Database|access-date=April 9, 2023}}</ref>

Her [[magical realism]]<ref name="glbtgodmotherreview">{{cite web | url=http://www.glbtfantasy.com/?section=fantasy&auth=Rachel+Pollack | access-date = September 19, 2008 | title = GLBT Fantasy review of Godmother Night}}</ref> 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.<ref name="Hurst">{{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 }}</ref>

Her short work "Burning Beard: The Dreams and Visions of Joseph ben Jacob, Lord Viceroy of Egypt" was published in 2007 in the anthology  ''[[Interstitial art#Interfictions|Interfictions: An Anthology of Interstitial Writing]],'' edited by [[Theodora Goss]] and [[Delia Sherman]].<ref name="Interfictions">{{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 }}</ref> It was reprinted online in ''[[Lightspeed (magazine)|Lightspeed]]'' in May 2014.<ref name="Lightspeed">{{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}}</ref>

===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.<ref>{{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}}</ref> Pollack uses the image of the Goddess in many of her works.<ref>{{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}}</ref>

===Teaching===
For 32 years, Pollack taught seminars with tarot author Mary K. Greer at the [[Omega Institute for Holistic Studies|Omega Institute]], in [[Rhinebeck (village), New York|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 [[symposium]]s such as Los Angeles Tarot Symposium, Bay Area Tarot Symposium, and the Readers Studio.<ref name="Women In Tarot" />

She was a professor of [[creative writing]] in the Masters of Fine Arts program of [[Goddard College]].<ref>{{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/}}</ref> She taught [[English studies|English]] at [[State University of New York]].<ref>{{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}}</ref>

==Influences==
Pollack was [[Jewish]],<ref name="Llewellyn">{{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 }}</ref> and frequently wrote about the [[Kabbalah]], most notably in ''The Kabbalah Tree''.<ref name="book biblio" />
 
She was a [[trans woman]] and wrote frequently on [[Transgender rights movement|transgender issues]].<ref name="testosterone">{{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}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref> In ''Doom Patrol'' she introduced [[Coagula]], a transsexual character. She also wrote several essays on [[transsexual]]ism, attacking the notion that it is a "sickness", instead saying that it is a passion.<ref>Pollack, Rachel. [https://web.archive.org/web/20080705185602/http://www.annelawrence.com/twr/archetypal.html "Archetypal Transsexuality."] Retrieved October 20, 2008.</ref> 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."<ref>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.</ref>

''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."<ref name="A Secret Woman">Pollack, Rachel. ''A Secret Woman: A Mystery.'' New York: St. Martin's Minotaur, 2002.</ref> Pollack created the characters known as 'the bandage people' for her ''Doom Patrol'' run.<ref name="CBR"/> The bandage people are 'sexually remaindered spirits' who died in sexual accidents. The initials SRS came from the medical term '[[Gender-affirming surgery|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."<ref>{{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}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref>

[[Fairy tale]]s 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.<ref>{{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}}</ref>

== 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]].<ref name=":0">{{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}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{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}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref> 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.<ref name=":0" />

On March 12, 2023, Gaiman announced on [[Instagram]] and [[Mastodon (social network)|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.<ref>{{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}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref>

Pollack died from [[Hodgkin lymphoma]] on April 7, 2023, at the age of 77.<ref name="nyt">{{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}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref>

==Awards and memberships==
* 1997 [[World Fantasy Award for Best Novel]] winner for ''Godmother Night''<ref>{{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 }}</ref>
* 1994 [[Nebula Award for Best Novel]] nominee for ''Temporary Agency''<ref>{{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}}</ref>
* 1989 [[Arthur C. Clarke Award]] winner for ''[[Unquenchable Fire]]''<ref>{{cite web |title=Winners and Shortlists |url=https://clarkeaward.com/#about |website=The Arthur C. Clarke Award |access-date=April 9, 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* Certified Tarot Grand Master (CTGM) with the Tarot Certification Board of America<ref name="Women In Tarot">{{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 }}</ref>
* Tarot Sage (TS) with the American Board For Tarot Certification<ref name="Women In Tarot" />
* member of the American Tarot Association (ATA)<ref name="Women In Tarot" />
* member of the International Tarot Society (ITS)<ref name="Women In Tarot" />
* member of the Tarot Guild of Australia<ref name="Women In Tarot" />
* member of the Tarot Association of the British Isles.<ref name="Women In Tarot" />
* 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 }}<ref name="book biblio">{{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}}</ref>
* {{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 }}<ref name="book biblio" />
*{{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 }}<ref name="book biblio" />
* {{cite book | last = Mckean | first = Dave | title = Bento | publisher = Allen Spiegel Fine Arts | location = Pacific Grove | year = 2001 | isbn = 0-9642069-4-3 }}<ref name="book biblio" />
*{{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 }}<ref name="book biblio" />
* {{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 }}<ref name="book biblio" />
* {{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 }}<ref name="book biblio" />
* {{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 }}<ref name="book biblio" />
* {{cite book | last = Pollack | first = Rachel | title = The New Tarot | publisher = Overlook Hardcover | location = City | year = 1990 | isbn = 0-87951-395-0 }}<ref name="book biblio" />
* {{cite book | last = Pollack | first = Rachel | title = Tarot Readings and Meditations | publisher = Thorsons Pub | location = London | year = 1991 | isbn = 1-85538-049-8 }}<ref name="book biblio" />
* 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 }}<ref name="book biblio" />
* {{cite book | last = Pollack | first = Rachel | title = The Body of the Goddess | publisher = Element Books | location = Tisbury | year = 1997 | isbn = 1-85230-871-0 }}<ref name="book biblio" />
* {{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 }}<ref name="book biblio" />
* {{cite book | last = Pollack | first = Rachel | title = The Shining Tribe Tarot | publisher = Llewellyn Publications | location = Saint Paul | year = 2001 | isbn = 1-56718-514-2 }}<ref name="book biblio" />
* {{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 }}<ref name="book biblio" />
* {{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 }}<ref name="book biblio" />
* {{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 }}<ref name="book biblio" />
* {{cite book | last = Pollack | first = Rachel | title = The Kabbalah Tree | publisher = Llewellyn Publications | location = Saint Paul | year = 2004 | isbn = 0-7387-0507-1 }}<ref name="book biblio" />
* {{cite book | last = Pollack | first = Rachel | title = Seeker | publisher = Llewellyn Publications | location = Saint Paul | year = 2005 | isbn = 0-7387-0521-7 }}<ref name="book biblio" />
* {{cite book | last = Robbins | first = Trina | title = Eternally Bad | publisher = Book Sales | location = City | year = 2002 | isbn = 0-7858-1565-1 }}<ref name="book biblio" />
* {{cite book | last = Pollack | first = Rachel | title = Tarot Wisdom | publisher = Llewellyn Publications | location = Saint Paul | year = 2008 | isbn = 978-0-73871-309-0 }}<ref name="book biblio" />

===Novels===
*{{cite book | title = Golden Vanity | last = Pollack | first = Rachel | year = 1980}}<ref name="biblio"/>
* {{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 }}<ref name="book biblio" />
*{{cite book |title=[[Unquenchable Fire]] |last=Pollack |first=Rachel |year=1988}}<ref name="biblio">{{cite web | title=The Shining Tribe | url = http://www.rachelpollack.com/writing/index.html | access-date=November 19, 2008}}</ref>
* {{cite book | last = Pollack | first = Rachel | title = Temporary Agency | publisher = St Martins Pr | location = City | year = 1994 | isbn = 0-312-11077-4 }}<ref name="book biblio" />
* {{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 }}<ref name="book biblio" />
* {{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 }}<ref name="book biblio" />
* {{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 }}<ref name="book biblio" />
* {{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 }}<ref name="book biblio" />

===Collections===
* {{cite book | last = Pollack | first = Rachel | title = Burning Sky | publisher = Cambrian Publications | year = 1998 | isbn = 1-878914-04-9 }}<ref name="book biblio" /><ref name="isfdb">{{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}}</ref>
* {{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 }}<ref name="book biblio" /><ref name="isfdb" />
* {{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 }}<ref name="isfdb" />

===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}}<ref name="book biblio" /><ref name="isfdb" />

===Short fiction===
* {{cite book | last = Pollack | first = Rachel | title = Pandora's Bust  | year = 1971}}<ref name="isfdb" />
* {{cite book | last = Pollack | first = Rachel | title = Tubs of Slaw  | year = 1973}}<ref name="isfdb" />
* {{cite book | last = Pollack | first = Rachel | title = Black Rose and White Rose  | year = 1975}}<ref name="isfdb" />
* {{cite book | last = Pollack | first = Rachel | title = Is Your Child Using Drugs? Seven Ways to Recognize a Drug Addict  | year = 1976}}<ref name="isfdb" />
* {{cite book | last = Pollack | first = Rachel | title = Angel Baby  | year = 1982}}<ref name="isfdb" />
* {{cite book | last = Pollack | first = Rachel | title = The Malignant One  | year = 1984}}<ref name="isfdb" />
* {{cite book | last = Pollack | first = Rachel | title = The Girl Who Went to the Rich Neighbourhood  | year = 1984}}<ref name="isfdb" />
* {{cite book | last = Pollack | first = Rachel | title = Tree House  | year = 1984}}<ref name="isfdb" />
* {{cite book | last = Pollack | first = Rachel | title = Lands of Stone  | year = 1984}}<ref name="isfdb" />
* {{cite book | last = Pollack | first = Rachel | title = The Protector  | year = 1986}}<ref name="isfdb" />
* {{cite book | last = Pollack | first = Rachel | title = The Bead Woman  | year = 1989}}<ref name="isfdb" />
* {{cite book | last = Pollack | first = Rachel | title = Knower of Birds  | year = 1989}}<ref name="isfdb" />
* {{cite book | last = Pollack | first = Rachel | title = Burning Sky | year = 1989}}<ref name="isfdb" />
* {{cite book | last = Pollack | first = Rachel | title = The Woman Who Didn't Come Back  | year = 1990}}<ref name="isfdb" />
* {{cite book | last = Pollack | first = Rachel | title = General All-Purpose Fairy Tale  | year = 1990}}<ref name="isfdb" />
* {{cite book | last = Pollack | first = Rachel | title = Making Good Time  | year = 1997 |author2=James Patrick Kelly |author3=Pat Cadigan |author4=Nancy Kress }}<ref name="isfdb" />
* {{cite book | last = Pollack | first = Rachel | title = The Fool, the Stick, and the Princess  | year = 1998}}<ref name="isfdb" />
* {{cite book | last = Pollack | first = Rachel | title = The Younger Brother  | year = 2001}}<ref name="isfdb" />
* {{cite book | last = Pollack | first = Rachel | title = Delusions of Universal Grandeur  | year = 2003}}<ref name="isfdb" />
* {{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}}<ref name="isfdb" />
* {{cite book | last = Pollack | first = Rachel | title = Immortal Snake  | year = 2008}}<ref name="isfdb" />
* {{Cite journal | last = Pollack  | first = Rachel  | title = Forever |journal=The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction |date=May 2010}}<ref name="isfdb" />

===Poetry===

* The Wild Cows (1993)<ref name="isfdb" />
* Fortune's Lover (May 2009). A Midsummer Night's Press
* Tyrant Oedipus (2012), with David Vine. EyeCorner Press

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

===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===
*{{Cite comic
 | Writer = Rachel Pollack
 | Artist = 
 | Story = 
 | Title = [[Doom Patrol]]
 | Volume = 
 | Issue = 64–87
 | Date = 1993–1995
 | Publisher = [[Vertigo (DC Comics)|Vertigo]]
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*{{Cite comic
 | Writer = Rachel Pollack
 | Cowriters = [[Tom Peyer]]
 | Penciller = Luke Ross
 | Inker = [[Brian Garvey (comics)|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]]
 | Volume = 
 | Issue = 1–5
 | date = 1995
 | Publisher = [[Helix (comics)|Helix]]
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*{{Cite comic
 | Writer = Rachel Pollack
 | Artist = [[Thomas Yeates]]
 | Story = 
 | Title = Vertigo Visions: [[Tomahawk (comics)|Tomahawk]]
 | Volume = 
 | Issue = 1
 | date = 1998
 | Publisher = [[Vertigo (DC Comics)|Vertigo]]
 | Page = 
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==References==
{{Reflist}}

==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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