About me
Sonia Pilcer is the author of five novels. Her most recent novel, The Last Hotel, is based on the residential hotel her father managed on the Upper Westside of Manhattan. Teen Angel, her first novel, was about a girls’ gang on the streets of Washington Heights. Maiden Rites, her second novel, followed her heroine’s escape from Queens and her first affair with a neurotic Columbia student. Through a series of interlocking monologues, her next work, I-LAND, introduced a group of Manhattan singles on the make during one long day and night. Pilcer’s fourth novel, The Holocaust Kid, her most personal, depicts a young woman’s struggle to free herself from an upbringing in the shadow of her parents ’experiences during the Holocaust. Pilcer’s stories have been collected in anthologies including Sudden Flash Youth, New York Sex, Nothing Makes You Free, and Visions of America: Personal Narratives from the Promised Land. Her awards include a grant from the New York Foundation of the Arts, Fellowships to Yaddo and the Virginia Center for Creative Arts. She has taught writing workshops at the Chautauqua Institute, the Writers Voice, and currently, at Berkshire Community College in Great Barrington. She lives in Manhattan and Copake Lake.
