Biography & Contact

Upcoming Works

• In ENCHANTMENT, Thaisa Frank, the recent author of the widely translated novel, HEIDEGGER’S GLASSES, returns with a collection of short fiction and two novellas written in a voice that covers a wide range,

  including contortionists, circus masters, angel channelers, and pre-Raphaelite.   In the title story, a lonely mother and housewife orders an enchanted man from a website called The Wondrous Traveler: He arrives with instructions for use and a list of frequently asked questions about enchantment. In “Thread,” two circus performers who pass through the eye of a needle become undone by a complicated love triangle. And “The Loneliness of the Midwestern Vampire” transcends the conventional genre to cast a poignant and human light on vampires in the heartlands. The two semi-autobiographical novellas, The Mapmaker and Night Visits, are written in a realistic voice that mirrors the surrealistic tilt of many of the other stories. The interplay of two distinct voices in Thaisa Frank’s work has been compared to George Bataille’s Story of the Eye by Carla Diacoff.

   

  These are vibrant, compelling stories that examine the distance between imagination and reality, and how characters bridge that gap in their attempt to reach one another.

   

   

Causes I Support

• Kiva Doctors without Borders Care2

University Affiliation

• Oberlin College,  Columbia University

Agents

• Ellen Levine Diana Finch

Contact Agents

• diana.finch@verizon.net

Publishers

• St. Martin's Press, Black Sparrow Press, Bloomsbury Press, Viking/Penguin, Counterpoint Press

Contact Publishers

• sarah.cantor@counterpoint.com

Influences

• the gloomy eastern europeans--kafka & schulz, especially; gogol & turgenev; par lagerqvist (the dwarf); faulkner, flannery o'conner, donald barthleme, richarrd brautigan, jane austen, charlotte bronte, russell edson, ana hatherly (portuguese), some special editors, people i meet in passing, erotic moments of all kinds, cats who use my manuscripts to sleep on, celan, wallace stevens, yeats, william stafford, the UCB library, winnicott, leibniz, heidegger, wittgenstein, lots of philosophy of science, highway 5, little streets in Paris, weird industrial sections on the outskirts of town, friends, all my students, my son and the journey being a mother