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Bibliography
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(2010)
Heidegger's Glasses
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(1997)
Sleeping in Velvet
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(1994)
Finding Your Writer's Voice: A Guide to Creative Fiction
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Desire One
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A Brief History of Camouflage
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- Legal name: Thaisa Frank
- Birthdate: August 25, 1953 (age 58)
- Birthplace: New York, New York, USA
- Nationality: USA
- Gender: Female
- Official Website: http://www.thaisafrank.com
- Genres: The literary novel, literary short fiction, prose poems, literary criticism
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Thaisa Frank-Bio
Thaisa Frank's fiction, according to The New York Times, "works by a tantalizing sense of indirection." She has published two major collections of fiction, A Breif History of Camouflage and Sleeping in Velvet, both of which have been regional bestsellers. Her fiction has been translated into several languages. She teaches fiction in graduate programs, private classes and UC Berkeley Extension workshops and is currently researching a book on the poetics of fiction and writing a new collection. She has just finished a novel about a nearly-mythical world that is temporarily sealed from the Holocaust. She is writing an afterward to the new Viking/Penquin edition of Voltaire (out in January 09) and recently toured the east with the anthology A DIctionary of Dirty Words, where she had a piece of short fiction. She is the co-author of Finding Your Writer's Voice, which has been translated into Portuguese and Spanish and used in numerous writing programs. This is what David Godine said about her work when he took over The Black Sparrow imprimatur:
"Few writers on the Black Sparrow list could be classified as "mainstream," that is, as people whose fiction could (and in Frank's case probably should) appear in The New Yorker. But these stories are just that, reading like a cross between modern fairy tales and Kafkaesque nightmares, stories in which the lines between reality and magic are deliberately blurred, and the unexpected connection, the unintended result, become commonplace. This probably sounds vaguely harrowing, and it would be were it not for Frank's wit and her sense of humor
You can learn more about Thaisa by visiting her web site www.thaisafrank.com.
Thaisa Frank's fiction, according to The New York Times, "works by a tantalizing sense of indirection." She has published two major collections of fiction, A Breif History of Camouflage and Sleeping in Velvet, both of which have been regional bestsellers. Her fiction has been translated into several languages. She teaches fiction in graduate programs, private classes and UC Berkeley Extension workshops and is currently researching a book on the poetics of fiction and writing a new collection. She has just finished a novel about a nearly-mythical world that is temporarily sealed from the Holocaust. She is writing an afterward to the new Viking/Penquin edition of Voltaire (out in January 09) and recently toured the east with the anthology A DIctionary of Dirty Words, where she had a piece of short fiction. She is the co-author of Finding Your Writer's Voice, which has been translated into Portuguese and Spanish and used in numerous writing programs. This is what David Godine said about her work when he took over The Black Sparrow imprimatur:
"Few writers on the Black Sparrow list could be classified as "mainstream," that is, as people whose fiction could (and in Frank's case probably should) appear in The New Yorker. But these stories are just that, reading like a cross between modern fairy tales and Kafkaesque nightmares, stories in which the lines between reality and magic are deliberately blurred, and the unexpected connection, the unintended result, become commonplace. This probably sounds vaguely harrowing, and it would be were it not for Frank's wit and her sense of humor
You can learn more about Thaisa by visiting her web site www.thaisafrank.com.
