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Thisbe Nissen 3524 Baseline Rd., Battle Creek, MI 49017 (269) 721-3960 Thisbe.Nissen@Wmich.Edu Thisbe Nissen 3524 Baseline Rd., Battle Creek, MI 49017 (269) 721-3960 [email protected] Education Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Iowa City, IA, MFA, Fiction, 1997, Teaching-Writing Fellow. Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH, B.A., English/Creative Writing, 1994, Phi Beta Kappa. Books Osprey Island, a novel, Knopf, June 2004. (Paperback, Anchor, 2005.) The Ex-Boyfriend Cookbook, fiction, collage & recipes (w/ Erin Ergenbright), HarperCollins, 2002. The Good People of New York, novel, Knopf, 2001. (Paperback, Anchor, 2002.) Chatto & Windus, London, 2001. (Paperback, Vintage, 2002.) Die Guten Menschen von New York, Dromer, Germany, 2002. (PB, Knaur, 2003.) De Goede Mensen van New York, Meulenhoff, Amsterdam, 2001. (PB, De Volkskrant, 2006.) Out of the Girls’ Room and into the Night, stories, U. of Iowa Press, 1999. (Reprint, Anchor, 2000.) Teaching - Colleges and Universities Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, Assistant Professor of Creative Writing. Fall 2010- Teaching ENG 6110: Literary Forms-Fiction, The Short-Short Story, Fall 2011. ENG 6660: Graduate Writing Workshop-Fiction, Fall 2010, Spring 2011, Fall 2011. ENG 5660: Creative Writing Workshop-Fiction, Fall 2010, Spring 2011. Undergraduate Independent Study Advising, Spring 2011. Graduate Independent Research Advising, Spring 2011, Fall 2011. MFA Project Advising, Spring 2011. Doctoral Dissertation Committee, Fall 2010. Undergraduate Honors College Thesis Advising, Fall 2010. Service Policy Committee, Fall 2011- Strategic Planning & Assessment Committee (SPA), Fall 2010- Creative Writing Committee, Fall 2010- The New School/Eugene Lang College, NY, NY, Writer-in-Residence. Undergraduate Advanced Fiction Writing: Fiction From Artifacts; Artifacts as Fiction, Spring ’10 Undergraduate Intermediate Fiction Writing: The Short-Short Story, Fall 2009. Pacific University, Forest Grove, OR, Low-Residency MFA Fiction Faculty, hybrid-online teaching. Graduate Fiction Writing, Summer-Fall 2009, Graduate Nonfiction Writing, Winter-Spring 2010. (College & University teaching, cont.) Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, Fannie Hurst Writer-in-Residence. Undergraduate Directed Writing: Fiction, Fall 2007 & Spring 2009. Undergraduate Directed Writing: Short Fiction, Spring 2008 & Spring 2009. Undergraduate Honors Thesis Advisement, Fall 2007-Spring 2009. Undergraduate Independent Study Advising, Fall 2007-Spring 2009. Columbia University, New York City, Visiting Assistant Professor. Graduate Thesis Advisor, Fall 2009 & Spring 2010. Graduate Fiction Workshop, Spring 2007. Graduate Thesis Reader, Spring 2007. Iowa Writers’ Workshop, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, Visiting Assistant Professor. Graduate Fiction Workshop, Spring 2005. Graduate Thesis Advising, Spring 2005. Kirkwood Community College, Iowa City, IA, Adjunct Instructor. Composition, spring 1998. The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, Graduate Student Instructor. Undergraduate Fiction Writing, Fall 1996 & Spring 1997. Rhetoric I and II, Fall 1995 & Spring 1996. Teaching - Conferences and Summer Programs The Catskill Studio for Writing, Saugerties, NY, Co-founder/Co-director, 2009. Solstice Summer Writers’ Conference, Pine Manor College, Chestnut Hill, MA, Novel: 6/17-23/07. Writers in Paradise, Eckerd College, St. Petersburg, FL, 1/21-29/06, 1/20-28/07, 1/19-26/08. Iowa Young Writers’ Studio, Iowa City, IA, Fiction Faculty, summers 2000-2005. Centrum Writers’ Conference, Port Townsend, WA, Fiction Faculty, July 10-20, 2003. University of N. Carolina Wilmington, Visiting Faculty, Writers’ Week Symposium, 3/18-22/02. Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Teaching Assistant for David Bradley, Middlebury, VT, Aug. 2001. Iowa Elderhostel, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, Instructor: Memoir Writing, summer 1997. Visiting Writer Colleges and Universities University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA, Sept. 14, 2009. Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, March 20, 2007. University of Iowa Writing & Learning Community, Iowa City, IA, October 9, 2005. Cornell College, Mt. Vernon, IA, January 19, 2005. University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, November 11, 2004. Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, November 9, 2004. Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, November 5, 2003. (Visiting Writer, Colleges & Universities, cont.) Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, October 20-26, 2003. Winona State University, Winona, MN, October 19, 2002. Mt. Mercy College, Cedar Rapids, IA, May 2, 2002. Reed College, Portland, OR, November 2000. Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH, November 1999. University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE, October 1999. Schools St. Paul’s School, Concord, NH, Dec. 4, 2009. Willowind School, Iowa City, IA, May 5, 2005. The Berkeley Carroll School, Brooklyn, NY, April 7, 2005. Norwalk High School, Norwalk, IA, October 30, 2002. High School of Health & Human Professions, NYC, November 2001. Washington High School, Cedar Rapids, IA, October 2001. Escanaba High School, Escanaba, MI, September 2000. FDR High School, Bensonhurst, NY, February 2000. Roosevelt High School, Seattle, WA, November 1999. Thomas Jefferson High School, Federal Way, WA, November 1999. Libraries Portland Public Library, Portland, Maine, August 2001. Cedar Rapids Public Library, Cedar Rapids, IA, June 2001. Escanaba Public Library, Escanaba, MI, September 2000. Lectures Wesleyan Writers Conference, Craft Lecture: Fiction From Artifacts, June 2008. Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Craft Lecturer, Middlebury, VT, Aug. 2001. Iowa Summer Writing Festival, Elevenses Lecturer: “The Art of Dialogue,” Iowa City, July 2001. Panels Iowa City Book Festival, “Fiction: The Long and Short of It,” Iowa City, IA, July 16, 2011. LWC}NYC, “Grassroots Marketing,” The New School, NYC, 11/10/07, 11/21/08, 11/22/09. Writers Work & Small Press Bonanza, “Small Press Publishing,” UMass Amherst, May 1, 2009. AWP, “From Stories to Novels: Crossing the Great Divide,” NYC, Feb. 1, 2008. AWP, “Off the Page: Writers Talk About the American Landscape,” NYC, Jan. 31, 2008. (Panels, cont.) 3rd Annual Hudson Valley Literary Festival: All LIT Up, “The State of American Fiction in the Marketplace,” Hudson, NY, May 5, 2007. Jewish Literary Festival, Half/Life: Jew-ish Tales from Interfaith Homes, DC JCC, Sept 12, 2006. MacDowell Downtown Series, “The Call To Art,” Peterborough, NH, Dec. 2, 2005. Yale University, The Trumbull Literary Panel, New Haven, CT, February 25, 2005. Wisconsin Book Festival, Writing & Publishing Panel, Madison, WI, Oct. 11.2002. Chicago Printer’s Row Book Fair, Bold New Voices: A NewCity Panel, June 1, 2002. Atlanta Jewish Book Festival, New Author Panel, November 13, 2001. Editorial and Publishing Experience LAND Creative Writing Contest, Fiction Judge, 2010. http://www.landconference.org/journals/2010- creative/index.html Tulane University, Judge, Student Fiction Contest, Spring 2010. Gulf Coast, Judge, Fiction Contest, 2010. Massachusetts Cultural Council, Artist Fellowship Panelist, Fiction/Creative Nonfiction judge, 2008. Columbia University, Writing Division, MFA Thesis Juror, Spring 2007. Vermont Studio Center Fellowship Juror, October 2006, February 2007. VERB Audioquarterly, Judge, Fiction Contest, Winter 2006. WordSmitten Quarterly Journal, Judge, “TenTen Fiction Contest,” 2004. Iowa Review, Fiction Editorial Staff, fall 2001-spring 2002. Seventeen Magazine, Judge, Annual Fiction Contest, 1999 & 2001. Small Press Distribution, Intern, Berkeley, CA, fall 1994. Cuyahoga, The Oberlin Literary Quarterly, Editorial Staff, 1993-1994. Story Publications Camera Obscura, vol. 2, winter 2010, “Deer at Rest.” www.obscurajournal.com/winter2010.php Triquarterly Online, July 2010, “Lull,” “What Hair Does,” “Iris Murdoch’s Taste For Kale,” “In Bed With My Parents,” & “The Last Marathon Brunch.” http://triquarterly.org/fiction/five-shorts NANO Fiction, issue 3.2, spring 2010, “Attributes of Baking Soda.” http://nanofiction.org/?p=555 Quick Fiction, issue 17, spring 2010, “Plots for Sale.” http://quickfiction.org/read/2139/plots-for-sale/ Glimmer Train, #69, winter 2009, “Home Is Where the Heart Gives Out and We Arouse the Grass.” Chattahoochee Review, summer 2008, “How Other People Make Love.” The Cincinnati Review, winter 2008, “Win’s Girl.” Glimmer Train, #65, winter 2008, “And the Night Goes Off Like a Gun in a Car.” Five Chapters, Jan. ’07, “Don’t Sweat the Petty.” www.fivechapters.com/2009/dont-sweat-the-petty/ Story Quarterly, issue 42, fall 2006, “The Church of the Fellowship of Something.” (Story Publications, cont.) The Journal News, 7/1/04, StoryLine: Tag-Team Fiction, (with Kevin Brockmeier), “BABYLAND.” Virginia Quarterly Review, vol. 80, no. 3, summer 2004. “You Were My Favorite Scarecrow.” http:// www.vqronline.org/articles/2004/summer/nissen-you-were/ Wordsmitten, vol 1, no. 1, winter 2004. “Woman With Backwards Uterus.” http:// www.wordsmitten.com/author_thisbenissen.htm The Hartford Courant, Jan. 19, 2003. “Morey’s Dinghy.” Tin House, issue 11, spring 2002. “A Readable Feast: Excerpts from The Ex-Boyfriend Cookbook.” Eyeshot, 2/02, “How It Was When I Lost My Fingernail;” http://www.eyeshot.net/thisbe2.html, & 1/ 02, “Some Notes on Etiquette,” http://www.eyeshot.net/thisbe1.html Pindeldyboz, vol. 1, no. 1, 2001. “Until the Day Breathes and the Shadows Flee.” Hamptons, June 2001. “The Rather Unlikely Courtship of Edwin Anderson and Roz Rosenzweig.” Seventeen, May 2001. “Wrestling Jailbait.” The Journal, Winter 1999. “After Twenty-Five Years, At The Palais Royale.” New Orleans Review, vol. 25, nos. 1 & 2, Fall 1999. “The Animal’s Best Interest.” The Atlantic Unbound, July 1999,
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