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  <name><![CDATA[Thisbe Nissen]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[Thisbe Nissen is the author of the story collection, &lt;i&gt;Out of the Girls' Room and into the Night&lt;/i&gt;, and two novels, &lt;i&gt;The Good People of New York&lt;/i&gt; and &lt;i&gt;Osprey Island&lt;/i&gt;. She also co-authored-and-collaged &lt;i&gt;The Ex-Boyfriend Cookbook&lt;/i&gt; with Erin Ergenbright. Thisbe's work is forthcoming, or has recently been published in &lt;i&gt;Story Quarterly, The Virginia Quarterly, Glimmer Train&lt;/i&gt;, and &lt;i&gt;The Cincinnati Review&lt;/i&gt;. She's taught at Columbia University, and the University of Iowa, and is the 2007-8 Fanny Hurst Writer-in-Residence at Brandeis University. 

Originally from New York City, Thisbe is a graduate of Oberlin College and the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and is finishing a new story collection called &lt;i&gt;How Other People Make Love&lt;/i&gt;, Nissen is at work on a novel, and on several collaged picture books for children.]]></about>    <gender>female</gender>  <hometown>New York</hometown>  <born_at>01/01/1972</born_at>    
  
  
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  <published>1999</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[The Good People of New York]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Osprey Island]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Best American Mystery Stories 2008]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Ex-Boyfriend Cookbook: They Came, They Cooked, They Left]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Good People of NY]]></title>
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