About the Author:
Tsipi Keller was born in Prague, raised in Israel, and has been living in the United States since 1974. Her short fiction, and her poetry translations, have appeared in many journals and anthologies; her novels,The Prophet of Tenth Street (1995) and Leverage (1997) were translated into Hebrew and published by Sifriat Poalim. (Currently, The Prophet of Tenth Street is being translated into German.) Keller’s translation of Dan Pagis’s posthumous collection, Last Poems, was published by The Quarterly Review of Literature (1993), and her translation of Irit Katzir’s posthumous collection, And I Wrote Poems, was published by Carmel in 2000. Among her awards are: A National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, two New York Foundation for the Arts grants, and an Armand G. Erpf award from Columbia University. Her novel, Jackpot, was published by Spuyten Duyvil (2004).
Review:
In her new trilogy, Tsipi Keller is revealed as a superlative psychological novelist....among the most subtly compelling of our time. -- The Forward/Joshua Cohen, Aug. 4, 2006
Keller has a keen eye for the territorial pissings and unspoken resentments of immature female friendships. -- Village Voice, July 17, 2006, Jessica Winter
TimeOut NY: 7/6/06 Fusing Patricia Highsmith...with Jean Rhys’s woman-in-a-jam claustrophobia... Retelling is great at maintaining mind-bending suspense. — Michael Miller -- time out NY
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