Eileen Pollack
Eileen Pollack was one of the first two women to graduate with a BS in physics from
Yale; she later earned an MFA in creative writing from the University of Iowa. Her
article “Why Are There Still So Few Women in Science?” appeared in the Sunday, October
3, 2013, issue of The New York Times Magazine; the essay is an excerpt from
her nonfiction book The Only Woman in the Room: Why Science Is Still a Boys' Club,
which will be published in September 2015 by Beacon Press. Eileen's novel A Perfect
Life, which is about a geneticist searching for a marker for the fatal neurological
disease that killed her mother and that she has a 50-50 chance of inheriting herself,
is forthcoming in June 2016 from Ecco Press. In addition, Eileen is the author of
two novels, two collections of short fiction, a work of book-length nonfiction, and
numerous essays and stories, many of which feature scientists as protagonists. She
is a full professor in the Department of English at the University of Michigan and
divides her time between Manhattan and Ann Arbor.
Contact
- epollack@umich.edu