Rochelle Wisoff-Fields

Rochelle Wisoff-Fields is an author and illustrator. A woman of Jewish descent and the granddaughter of Eastern European immigrants, she has a personal connection to Jewish history, a recurring theme throughout much of her writing. Heavily influenced by the Sholem Aleichem stories, as well as Fiddler on the Roof , her novels Please Say Kaddish for Me , From Silt and Ashes , and As One Must One Can were born of her desire to share the darker side of these beloved tales. A Kansas City native,...See more

Rochelle Wisoff-Fields is an author and illustrator. A woman of Jewish descent and the granddaughter of Eastern European immigrants, she has a personal connection to Jewish history, a recurring theme throughout much of her writing. Heavily influenced by the Sholem Aleichem stories, as well as Fiddler on the Roof , her novels Please Say Kaddish for Me , From Silt and Ashes , and As One Must One Can were born of her desire to share the darker side of these beloved tales. A Kansas City native, Wisoff-Fields attended the Kansas City Art Institute, where she studied painting and lithography. She maintains her blog, Addicted to Purple , and is the author of This, That and Sometimes the Other , an anthology of her short stories, which she also illustrated. Her stories have also been featured in several other anthologies, including two editions of Voices . Wisoff-Fields and her husband, Jan, have three sons and now live in Belton, Missouri. See less