Thisbe Nissen
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Thisbe Nissen is an American author. 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 graduated of Oberlin College and later received a Master of Fine Arts in Fiction from the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa.
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[edit] Works
[edit] Out of the Girls' Room and Into the Night
A collection of 25 fierce and quirky short stories and winner of the John Simmons 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.
[edit] The Good People of New York
Nissen's first published novel 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.
[edit] 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.
[edit] 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.
