Thisbe Nissen is the author of the story collection Out of the Girls' Room and into the Night and the novels The Good People of New York and Osprey Island. Her fiction has appeared in the Iowa Review and the American Scholar, among other publications, and her nonfiction has appeared in Vogue and Glamour. She teaches at Western Michigan University and lives in Battle Creek, Michigan, with her husband, writer Jay Baron Nicorvo, and their son.