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Jill Wisoff

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New York City, The United States

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Fiction, Young Adult, Paranormal

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Jill Wisoff is a songwriter, screenwriter, and actress, and a graduate of Bennington College and the New School MFA program in Writing: Fiction. She composed score and songs for the Sundance award-winning film Welcome to the Dollhouse.

You may have seen her as Johnny Thunders' bassist touring with the Oddballs in Europe, the Midwest, and Canada; or starring opposite Todd Solondz in his first film Fear Anxiety & Depression.

Shelter Island, her debut novel, and its sequel, are inspired by the lives of musicians and their families she's known, particularly from the original East Village punk scene. These will be followed by a paranormal novel to be published in the fall of 2026.
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Number one on Amazon teen and YA family ebooks!!!

Excited to see the day after my debut novel Shelter Island published it charted at number one on Amazon for teen and young adult family ebooks and number four for teen and young adult friendship novels!

Thank you, Goodreads readers. I feel pretty blown away!

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Gaywyck (Gaywyck Quartet Book 1)

by Vincent Virga

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The Mystery of the Midnight Swan (Miss Busby Investigates Book 5): A 1920s Cotswolds Murder Mystery

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Double Blind: The Seneca County Courthouse Series: Book Two

by A. X. Foster

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Jill Wisoff made a comment in the group Read With Jenna (Official) — Shelter Island: A January Hoolihan and Crisscross Adventure topic " My debut novel is a YA literary (and adult summer read) about an orphaned middle schooler of an East Village punk rocker and her animal obsessed kid-s ...more "
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Jill Wisoff made a comment in the group Goodreads Authors/Readers — Author List topic " SHELTER ISLAND: A JANUARY HOOLIHAN AND CRISSCROSS ADVENTURE My name is Jill Wisoff and this is my debut YA literary novel and my book, which published ...more "
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Jill Wisoff made a comment in the group Amazon Kindle — Number one today on Amazon in teen and YA family ebook topic " SHELTER ISLAND: A JANUARY HOOLIHAN AND CRISSCROSS ADVENTURE. My debut YA literary novel (and an adult summer read) for ages 12 and up. The ebook publis ...more "
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