Thaisa Frank

The fiction of Thaisa Frank, according to the New York Times, works “by a tantalizing sense of indirection.” The critic Don Skiles has described her stories as being “in the grand tradition of the fairy tale, the legend, the spell,” and the reviewer Rob Hurwitt has called her work “domestic magical realism.” She has been on the Bestseller List of the San Francisco Chronicle, is the recipient of two PEN Awards and a two-time Northern California Book Reviewer’s Association nominee. Among her several books of fiction are Sleeping in Velvet, and A Brief History of Camouflage (Black Sparrow Press). Her work has appeared in numerous anthologies, the most recent of which are Harper/Collins Readers’ Choice and New Directions. She is also co-author of the nonfiction book, Finding Your Writer’s Voice, which has been compared to Brenda Uleland’s book If You Want to Write and is part of the St. Martin’s Press Writer’s Library.

Thaisa Frank teaches writing in the graduate departments of San Francisco State, the University of San Francisco, and the undergraduate honors program at the University of California at Berkeley. She also gives workshops in Los Angeles at Occidental College and The Arts Center. Her work has been translated into Portuguese, Spanish, Polish, and Finnish. Forthcoming books include a new collection of fiction and a novel about World War II.