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Thisbe Nissen

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January 01, 1972 in New York, The United States

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Thisbe Nissen is the author of the story collection, Out of the Girls' Room and into the Night, and two novels, The Good People of New York and Osprey Island. She also co-authored-and-collaged The Ex-Boyfriend Cookbook with Erin Ergenbright. Thisbe's work is forthcoming, or has recently been published in Story Quarterly, The Virginia Quarterly, Glimmer Train, and The Cincinnati Review. 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 How Other People Make Love, Nissen is at work on a novel, and on several...more

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Books by Thisbe Nissen

Average rating: 3.55 · 1,255 ratings · 197 reviews · 7 distinct works

	Out of the Girls' Room and Into the Night: Stories 3.83 avg rating — 387 ratings — published 1999 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Good People of New York 3.43 avg rating — 440 ratings — published 2003 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Osprey Island 3.01 avg rating — 127 ratings — published 2004 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Good People of NY 3.29 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2001	My rating:
	The Ex-Boyfriend Cookbook: They Came, They Cooked, They Left by Thisbe Nissen, Erin Ergenbright 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2010	My rating:
	The Best American Mystery Stories 2008 by George Pelecanos (Editor), Otto Penzler (Goodreads Author) (Series Editor), Elizabeth Strout 3.55 avg rating — 143 ratings — published 2008 — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Ex-Boyfriend Cookbook: They Came, They Cooked, They Left by Erin Ergenbright, Thisbe Nissen 3.65 avg rating — 51 ratings — published 2002	My rating: