Rochelle Distelheim

Rochelle Distelheim was a Chicago-born writer who earned numerous short story awards and fellowships. Her short stories were nominated for the Best American Short Stories and the Pushcart Prize. Her stories appeared in national women's and general-interest magazines. Her debut novel, Sadie in Love, was published by Aubade Publishing in 2018 and is set among Jewish immigrants on New York's Lower East Side in 1913. Her last novel, Jerusalem as a Second Language, followed from Aubade in 2020. According to Over The River PR, she died in June 2020 at age 92.