Thisbe Nissen

Thisbe Nissen (1972- ) [http://www.identitytheory.com/people/birnbaum25.html] is an American author. Originally from New York City, Nissen has lived in Iowa for the last eleven years. Among her works are "Osprey Island", "The Good People of New York", and "Out of the Girls' Room and into the Night". She has taught a fiction course at least once a year since the inception of the Iowa Young Writers' Workshop, a two-week intensive creative writing workshop "camp" for talented high school students, except in 2006. She has also taught at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, Iowa Elderhostel. Nissen is a graduate of Hunter College High School on Manhattan's Upper East Side. She attended Oberlin College, and received her Master of Fine Arts in Fiction from the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa, where she was a James Michener Fellow [http://www.land-grantcollegereview.com/author.php/Thisbe+Nissen/21/index/] .

In 2007, she taught at the 3rd Annual Writers in Paradise at Eckerd College (from January 20-28). In the spring of 2007, she'll be back in New York to teach at Columbia. Just finishing a new story collection called "How Other People Make Love", Nissen is at work on a novel, and on several collaged picture books for children. [http://writersinparadise.eckerd.edu/index.php?f=authors]

Works

Nissen's work has been published in "Glimmer Train", "Story", "Story Quarterly", "The Virginia Quarterly", "Seventeen", "Vogue", and "Glamour." She has also authored the following books:

Out of the Girls' Room and Into the Night

A collection of 25 fierce and quirky short stories and winner of the 1999 John Simmons Short Fiction Award. Dealing with many familiar issues in a familiar way, Ms. Nissen tackles young women (and men) dealing with eating disorders, death, infidelity, and love.

The Good People of New York

Nissen's first published novel (2001) is about the relationship between mother, Roz, and daughter, Miranda, as they travel through the hardships that life swings at them. Roz, a loud, confident Jewish woman living in New York, meets Edwin, a calm, quiet Nebraskan man at a party thrown by their mutual friend. From there on, they fall in love, get married, have a child, and have marital troubles.

Osprey Island

This novel describes the weblike interrelations of an entire community, from the alcoholic Lance Squire, whose wife dies after falling asleep with a lit cigarette, to a romance between the resort owner's daughter Suzy Chizek and maintenance worker Roddy Jacobs.

The Ex-Boyfriend Cookbook

"The Ex-Boyfriend Cookbook: They Came, They Cooked, They Left (But We Ended Up With Some Great Recipes)", is a cookbook co-authored with author Erin Ergenbright.

External links

* [http://msn.foxsports.com/fantasy/football/commissioner/team/home?teamId=529743 A 2004 interview with Nissen]
* [http://www.bookpage.com/0407bp/thisbe_nissen.html Osprey Island interview]
* [http://www.beatrice.com/interviews/nissen/ A 2001 interview]
* [http://www.identitytheory.com/people/birnbaum25.html Another interview]
* [http://www.randomhouse.com/knopf/authors/nissen/ Nissen's Virtual Notebooks]
* [http://www.fivechapters.com/dont_sweat_the_petty/ Don't Sweat the Petty] – on-line story, published January 2007