Thaisa Frank is the recipient of two PEN awards, and her two most recent story collections were nominated for the Bay Area Book Reviewer's Association Award. She has taught writing in the graduate department of San Francisco State University, is on the part-time faculty at the University of San Francisco, and has been Visiting Associate Professor of Creative Writing at the University of California, Berkeley.
Praise for Heidegger's Glasses A tour de force whose imagery haunts the reader long after the final page is turned. -Jim Moret, author of The Last Day of My Life This is stunning work, full of mystery and strange tenderness. Thaisa Frank has written one of the most compelling stories of the Nazi regime since D. M. Thomas's Pictures at an Exhibition. It is a book that will haunt you. -Dan Chaon, author of Await Your Reply Frank's vision of the Holocaust is original and startling, with compelling characters and a narrative that's both explosive and ponderous. -Publisher's Weekly (starred review) A spellbinding, innovative, intellectually compelling tour-de-force. Thaisa Frank's imagination is boundless: she enchants and horrifies and moves us, often on the same page. -Michelle Huneven, author of Blame