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Alisa Kwitney

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Born

New York City, NY, The United States

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http://www.alisakwitney.com/

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Young Adult, Graphic Novels, Fiction

Influences

horror comics, Robert Sheckley

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November 2012

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I'm the author of YA, graphic novels and novels for adults who still feel young, at least most of the time. Recent works include GILT, a graphic novel about time-traveling women of a certain age; Cadaver & Queen, a YA Feminist Frankenstein meets Grey's Anatomy tale, and Mystik U from DC Comics, which features Zatanna and other magical characters in their first year at college. I also co-host a Sandman podcast, The Endless, with Lani Diane Rich.

My first novel, Till the Fat Lady Sings, is also about college and romance and eating disorders. (It was my thesis at Columbia University's MFA Program, where I felt like an outlier for liking comic books and romance as much as literature.) I was an editor at Vertigo, the mature/dark fantasy branch of ...more

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	The Sandman: King of Dreams by Alisa Kwitney (Goodreads Author), Neil Gaiman (Goodreads Author) (Introduction) 4.63 avg rating — 18,366 ratings — published 2003 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cadaver & Queen (Cadaver & Queen, #1) 3.63 avg rating — 1,233 ratings — published 2018 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Destiny: A Chronicle of Deaths Foretold by Alisa Kwitney (Goodreads Author), Kent Williams (Illustrator), Michael Zulli (Illustrator) 3.79 avg rating — 743 ratings — published 1995 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	New Avengers: Breakout 3.75 avg rating — 648 ratings — published 2013 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Dominant Blonde 3.24 avg rating — 735 ratings — published 2002 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Token by Alisa Kwitney (Goodreads Author), Joëlle Jones 3.42 avg rating — 623 ratings — published 2008 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Does She or Doesn't She?: A Witty Romantic Comedy About a Bored Wife, an Undercover FBI Agent, and Dangerous Desires 2.87 avg rating — 540 ratings — published 2003 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Rogue: Untouched 3.83 avg rating — 354 ratings — published 2021 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	On the Couch: A Witty Romantic Comedy of Mistaken Identity and Seduction in Manhattan 3.19 avg rating — 402 ratings — published 2004 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mystik U by Alisa Kwitney (Goodreads Author), Mike Norton (Illustrator) 3.41 avg rating — 368 ratings — published 2018 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Series by Alisa Kwitney

Cadaver & Queen (2 books)
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Alisa Kwitney (Goodreads Author)

3.63 avg rating — 1,447 ratings

Destiny: A Chronicle of Deaths Foretold (3 books)
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Alisa Kwitney (Goodreads Author),

Kent Williams (Illustrator)

3.76 avg rating — 836 ratings

Mystik U (3 books)
by

Alisa Kwitney (Goodreads Author),

Julian Totino Tedesco (Cover Art),

Jordie Bellaire (Goodreads Author) (Colorist),

Mike Norton (Penciller)

3.48 avg rating — 556 ratings

Convergence: Batgirl (2 books)
by

Alisa Kwitney (Goodreads Author) (Writer),

Steve Buccellato (Colorist),

Dan Green (Cover Art),

Rick Leonardi (Penciller),

Mark Pennington (Inker)

3.29 avg rating — 407 ratings

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Character: The Art of Role and Cast Design for Page, Stage, and Screen

by Robert McKee

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Land of Dreams

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“So if you brushed up against someone who suddenly made you feel twice as alive, the real crime was not taking hold of pleasure with both hands.”
― Alisa Kwitney, Flirting in Cars

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“It is dangerous to be right on matters in which the established authorities are wrong.”
― Alisa Kwitney, Cadaver & Queen

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“It struck her that admiration, for all its Austenian overtones, was actually a crucial element of desire.”
― Alisa Kwitney, Flirting in Cars

tags: attraction, desire

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