Alisa Kwitney (born 1964) is an American

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of comedic

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s and

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Biography

Kwitney grew up in

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, on Manhattan's Upper West Side,"Alisa Kwitney: From the Author"

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. Retrieved November 15, 2012. the daughter of science fiction author

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and Ziva Kwitney. Alisa Kwitney has a BA in English from

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, where she received the Horgan Writing Prize for Fiction, and an MFA in fiction from

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, where she received a scholarship of merit. Her

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was published by

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as her first novel, ''Till The Fat Lady Sings'', in 1991. Kwitney was an editor for

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. She is currently the editor for Liminal Comics at Brain Mill Press. Kwitney lives in an old farmhouse two hours from Manhattan with her husband and two children.

Bibliography

Novels

* ''Till The Fat Lady Sings'' (1991) * ''The Dominant Blonde'' published by Avon Books in June, 2002 * ''Does She or Doesn't She?'' published by Avon Books in June, 2003 * ''On the Couch'' published (paperback) by HarperCollins, July 1, 2004 * ''Sex as a Second Language: A Novel'' published by Atria Books, April 25, 2006 978-0-74326890-5 * ''Flirting in Cars'' published by Atria Books, August, 2007, 978-0-7432-6897-4 * ''The Better to Hold You'' (as Alisa Sheckley) by Ballantine Books, 2009, 978-0-345-50587-3 * ''Moonburn'' (as Alisa Sheckley) by Ballantine Books, 2009, 978-0-345-50588-0 * ''New Avengers: Breakout'' (adapted from the graphic novel by Brian Michael Bendis and David Finch) Marvel, 2013, 978-0-7851-6517-0 * ''Cadaver & Queen'' published by Harlequin Teen, February 2018, 1335470468

Graphic novels

* ''The Dreaming: Beyond The Shores of Night'' (editor and contributing author) DC Comics, (1998) 1-56389-393-2 * '' Destiny: A Chronicle of Deaths Foretold'' (Nominated for Best Limited Series Eisner Award) (March 2000) * ''Vertigo Visions: The Phantom Stranger'' (October 2003) * ''Token'' (November 2008) * ''A Flight of Angels'' (Contributing author) by Vertigo/DC Comics (2011) 978-1-4012-2147-8 * ''Batman: No Man's Land'' Volume 3 (Contributing author) by DC Comics (2012) 978-1-4012-3456-0 * ''Mystik U'' by DC Comics, November, 2017

Non-fiction

* ''Child of Mine'' (Contributing author) (1997) * ''Vertigo Visions: Artwork from the Cutting Edge of Comics'' (2000) (Nominated for Locus Best Art Book) 0-8230-5603-1 * ''The Sandman: King of Dreams'' (2003) 0-8118-3592-8

References

External links

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