Thisbe Nissen

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Thisbe Nissen is an American author. Originally from New York City, she lived in Iowa for eleven years. [1] 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.

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Early life and education

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. [2]

Career

In 2007, she taught at the 3rd Annual Writers in Paradise at Eckerd College. In the spring of 2007, she was back in New York to teach at Columbia. After finishing a story collection called How Other People Make Love, Nissen is at work on a novel, and on several collaged picture books for children. [3] From the fall of 2007 to the spring of 2009, she taught fiction workshops at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts. In 2010, she began a tenure-line appointment in the English Department at Western Michigan University, where she joined Jaimy Gordon, William Olsen, Nancy Eimers, Steve Feffer, and Richard Katrovas in the Creative Writing Program. She's married to writer Jay Baron Nicorvo. [4]

Works

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

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References

  1. ↑ "Thisbe Nissen Interview (The Good People of New York)". December 2001. Archived from the original on 2022-05-19. Retrieved 2007-01-28.
  2. ↑ "Land-Grant College Review Thisbe Nissen - Literary Journal". Archived from the original on 2007-03-01. Retrieved 2007-01-28.
  3. ↑ "Home". Archived from the original on 2006-12-12. Retrieved 2007-01-28.
  4. ↑ "Thisbe Nissen and Jay Baron Nicorvo Love Being Married to a Writer (Each Other)". madison.com. 2018-01-27. Archived from the original on 2018-01-27. Retrieved 2018-01-27.
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