Jill Eisenstadt (born June 15, 1963) is an American novelist, screenwriter, teacher and freelance journalist.
She was considered part of the "Literary Brat Pack", whose members included Bret Easton Ellis, Jay McInerney, Donna Tartt, and Tama Janowitz[1] Like her contemporaries at Bennington, she sometimes wrote in a sparse minimalist style influenced by such writers as Raymond Carver and Joan Didion.
[citation needed] Her first novel, From Rockaway, published by Knopf in 1987, was submitted as her MFA thesis while at Columbia University.
[citation needed] She has collaborated with her writer/director sister Debra as a co-writer on the screenplay for the independent filmThe Limbo Room (2006) and as a producer on the film, Before the Sun Explodes.
She has also written extensively about the frightening experience of losing her apartment in 1989 to a steam-pipe explosion that contaminated her possessions, including her manuscripts, with asbestos.