Elicia Brown Pomeroy, journalist who wrote movingly about her cancer diagnosis, dies at 48
Published August 6, 2017
Elicia Brown
(JTA) — New York writer Elicia Brown Pomeroy, who wrote for JTA and other publications about her battle with ovarian cancer, has died.
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In November 2015, Brown wrote a column for JTA describing how she received her diagnosis of ovarian cancer on the day that her husband’s sister died of a similar disease. Brown was buried next to her sister-in-law in a small Jewish cemetery in Sag Harbor, New York, on Sunday. She was 48.
She wrote a regular column for the New York Jewish Week for many years, where she also worked as a staff writer. She also contributed to the Forward and JTA, as well as other publications.
She was a graduate of Barnard College and received a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University.
She was awarded a Rockower Award for Excellence in Personal Essay for her essay for JTA titled: “At Hanukkah, finding light in a time of illness and darkness.”
She is survived by her husband, Jeremy Pomeroy, and two teenage children.
