She drew on her experience as a transgender woman to create the first transgender superheroine for DC Comics
Ms. Pollack was teaching English at a university in Upstate New York in 1971 when she experienced perhaps the most pivotal year of her life.
Ms. Pollack was widely admired for her works of speculative fiction, which touched on themes of magic, mythology, religion and sexuality. She received the Arthur C. Clarke Award, an annual prize recognizing the best science fiction novel first published in the United Kingdom, for her book “Unquenchable Fire” , which was later released in the United States.
Ms. Pollack was equally, if not more, known for her publications on tarot reading, the centuries-old tradition of diving meaning and even the future from decks of illustrated cards. Her books on the topic included “Seventy-Eight Degrees of Wisdom: A Tarot Journey to Self Awareness,” a work that has been in circulation in various forms for more than 40 years and is regarded as a classic in its field.in the online LGBTQ publication Them, Ms.
Ms. Pollack received a bachelor’s degree in English from New York University in 1967 and pursued graduate studies at Claremont Graduate University in California before beginning her initial career in higher education.
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