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Biography

Jamie Pastor Bolnick lives with her family and dogs in New York City. An ex-actress, journalist and photographer, her work has appeared in Redbook, New York Newsday Sunday Magazine, The New York Daily News and Interview Magazine.

She is the author of two nonfiction books. Living at the Edge of the World is also available on Kindle and Nook and was adapted theatrically by actress Rachel Morgan (titled "The Most Beautiful High") and mounted for a limited Chicago run. Winnie: My Life in the Institution was made into an NBC-TV Movie of the Week starring Meredith Baxter Birny in the title role and is available for viewing on YouTube. A new revised paperback edition of Winnie was released in 2010.

 

Both books can be ordered from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Albris and IndieBound, and through Book Arts Press at http://www.book-arts-press.com/winnie.html

 

Her books have been translated and published in Holland, Norway, China and Japan.

 

 

Currently she is working on a memoir about 1960s life in a three-room apartment in New York's Greenwich Village with six other aspiring artists, a streetwise seven-year old girl, and a mutt named Queenie. Its working title is Twenty Toothbrushes.

 

Jamie Pastor Bolnick is a member of The Authors Guild and PEN America.