Nisa Donnelly (November 11, 1950 – January 30, 2021) was an American writer. She was most noted for her 1989 novel ''The Bar Stories: A Novel After All'', which won the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction at the

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in 1990. Her second novel, ''The Love Songs of Phoenix Bay'', was published in 1994. She won a second Lambda at the

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in the Non-Fiction Anthologies category, as editor of the anthology ''Mom: Candid Memoirs by Lesbians About the First Woman in Their Life''. She died on January 30, 2021, in Portland, Oregon.

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