Nisa Donnelly (November 11, 1950 – January 30, 2021) was an American writer.[1] 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 2nd Lambda Literary Awards in 1990.[2]
Her second novel, The Love Songs of Phoenix Bay, was published in 1994.[3] She won a second Lambda at the 11th Lambda Literary Awards 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.[4]