Jill Neimark

I grew up in Highland Park, Illinois. As soon as I could I lit out for the territory, aka New York City, where as Walt Whitman mused, “I saunter’d, pondering on time, space, reality.” I’ve spent most of my life as a writer, but have also been an acquisitions and features editor in both book and magazine publishing, and spent time in Santa Fe, Australia, Romania, Cyprus, Honduras, and the Carribean. My journalism spans science, medicine, health and the mystical/spiritual. My novel, Bloodsong, was published in hardcover in 1993 and paperback in 1994, was a BOMC selection, translated into Italian, German and Hebrew, and optioned for film. Jonathan Kirsch of the Los Angeles Times wrote: “Neimark pours so much passion into her novel that the story literally begins to sing” and Entertainment Weekly called it “seductive and luxurious.” I’ve also written three children’s books, one of which, I Want Your Moo, coauthored with Marcella Bakur-Weiner, Ph.D., has been in print for over a decade. My new book, coauthored with bioethcist Stephen Post, Ph.D., is Why Good Things Happen to Good People (Random House, May, 2007).

Late Fragment

And did you get what
you wanted from this life, even so?
I did.
And what did you want?

--Raymond Carver