Rachel Pollack is one of the world’s foremost authorities
on the modern interpretation of the tarot. She has published
12 books on the tarot, including 78 Degrees of Wisdom, which
is considered a modern classic. She also designed and drew
the Shining Woman Tarot, described by Caitlin Matthews
as “the crowning jewel of geocentric shamanism.” She
is a member of the American Tarot Association, the International
Tarot Society, and the Tarot Guild of Australia, and has
been conferred the title of Tarot Grand Master by the Tarot
Certification Board, an independent body located in Las
Vegas, Nevada.
Pollack is also a poet, fiction writer, and a comic book
artist. As a fiction writer, she has been bestowed many
honors and awards, among them the Arthur C. Clarke Award
for Science Fiction (for Unquenchable Fire) and
the World Fantasy Award (for Godmother Night).
She is a recommended member of PEN International, and has
written for numerous publications.
Pollack holds an honors degree in English from New York University,
a master’s degree in English from Claremont Graduate
School, and has taught English at New York State University.
With fellow tarot author Mary Greer, she has taught at Omega
for more than 15 years.
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