Tsipi Keller was born in Prague, raised in Israel, and has been living in the U.S. since 1974. The author of nine books, she is the recipient of several literary prizes, including National Endowment for the Arts Translation Fellowships, New York Foundation for the Arts Fiction Awards, and an Armand G. Erpf Award from Columbia University. Her novels include "The Prophet of Tenth Street" "Retelling" and "Jackpot." Her most recent translation collections are: "Poets on the Edge: An Anthology of Contemporary Hebrew Poetry" and "The Hymns of Job & Other Poems." Her most recent novel is "Elsa" (May 2014).Recent reviews for "Elsa" (excerpts)Elsa is the third in Tsipi Keller's trilogy of psychological novels. The first two were Jackpot and Retelling, which trace the fortunes of women. Elsa calls to mind some of Richard Burgin's noir fiction. Both writers explore the world of nefarious, but initially engaging, operators who insinuate themselves into the lives of lonely strangers aiming to control or ruin them.... Much more than a tale about a smart woman who makes foolish choices, Elsa is a fast-paced, tightly crafted, suspenseful, psychological crime novel that sidles up to the reader, then pounces. Lynn Levin/Cleaver Magazine.Women OnlyEvan SteuberFrom: American Book Review Volume 35, Number 5, July/August 2014 Elsa is a woman of thirty-nine: a tax lawyer who lives alone with her cat. She talks about men with her friends. Imaginatively, she plays out the roles she may yet be prepared for ... the way she will move and interact in the world "just like in the movies." She is a classic literary figure, caught in the everyday ... escaping the present through her romantic imaginings, a Madame Bovary in the twenty-first century. Tsipi Keller is more than aware of this, as Flaubert sticks his head in at one point: "The promise of love, faint as it is, does wonders for her. The promise of love, of romance, of beautiful sex. So what if women, to believe Flaubert, mistake their vaginas for their hearts? So what? Let them. Let her. What does Flaubert know about love? Let her mistake what part she chooses for her heart."Read Melanie Page's review of "Elsa" here:http://grabthelapels.com/2015/08/10/elsa/Recent reviews for "The Prophet of Tenth Street" (excerpts):"Tsipi Keller has taken us into a writer's very being.... This is a provocative story that stays with the reader." Jewish Book World"Poet and novelist Keller (Retelling) handles this poignant tale with the deftness of a writer who has struggled alongside her characters." -- Publishers Weekly"It is beyond difficult to write fiction about a fiction-maker; not only do you have to get into the guy's head, you've got to create a plot in which something actually happens. Keller does both, and in a way that's unnerving--how does she know so much about what it means to be a man, trapped in his head, convinced he will find and reveal the essential truths of life?" -- Head Butler