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Jesse Thiessen holds a B.A. in English from Portland State University and an M.F.A. in Nonfiction Writing from Columbia University. A native of Canada and Oregon, she has taught in Columbia's undergraduate Creative Writing Department and her nonfiction has been published in McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Line Zero, and Cavalier Literary Couture. Her fiction will appear in the inaugural short story collection of Topside Press.