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25: 272:: Nissen's first published novel (2001) is about the relationship between mother, Roz, and daughter, Miranda, as they travel through the hardships that life swings at them. Roz, a loud, confident Jewish woman living in New York, meets Edwin, a calm, quiet Nebraskan man at a party thrown by their mutual friend. From there on, they fall in love, get married, have a child, and have marital troubles. 278:: this novel describes the weblike interrelations of an entire community, from the alcoholic Lance Squire, whose wife dies after falling asleep with a lit cigarette, to a romance between the resort owner's daughter Suzy Chizek and maintenance worker Roddy Jacobs. 266:: a collection of short stories and winner of the 1999 John Simmons Short Fiction Award. Dealing with many familiar issues in an unfamiliar way, Ms. Nissen tackles young women (and men) dealing with eating disorders, death, infidelity, and love. 389: 385: 109: 236: 176:, Nissen is at work on a novel, and on several collaged picture books for children. From the fall of 2007 to the spring of 2009, she taught fiction workshops at 335: 289: 197: 484: 459: 479: 112:, a two-week intensive creative writing workshop "camp" for talented high school students, except in 2006. She has also taught at the 364: 423: 489: 314: 443: 68: 46: 39: 474: 464: 418: 242: 339: 181: 125: 282:
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in Waltham, Massachusetts. In 2010, she began a tenure-line appointment in the English Department at
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In 2007, she taught at the 3rd Annual Writers in Paradise at
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in the Creative Writing Program. She's married to writer
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