She works at the intersection of literary and speculative fiction. She is the author of the dystopian novel Our Machinery (Brown Paper Publishing, 2008) and a collection of speculative feminist fiction, The Subconscious Mutiny and Other Stories (Brown Paper Publishing, 2009).

Thaïs believes in life-long learning, and her creative writing and critical research are intertwined. In her thirties, she learned Yiddish (her grandmother’s first language) to write a speculative novel about a woman haunted by her grandmother’s ghost. Her creative and scholarly writing has been featured in Poetics Today, Studies in Popular Culture, Jewish Film and New Media, The Common, The Jewish Review of Books, Entropy, Nautilus, The Los Angeles Review of Books, CRAFT, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, and So It Goes: The Literary Journal of the Kurt Vonnegut Museum and Library, among other journals. Her recent short stories investigate the cultural implications of new technology.

She has over fifteen years of professional experience as an editor of multi-genre creative writing. She volunteered for the Center for Fiction and the Brooklyn-based magazine, One Story, among other literary organizations. Her teaching is also informed by her film and media industry experience screening films and writing the digital catalogue for the Jewish Film Institute’s San Francisco Jewish Film Festivals as well as reviewing screenplays and short film submissions for Francis Ford Coppola and George Lucas’s film production company American Zoetrope. Many of her in-class exercises are inspired by her prior work in digital advertising and new media, particularly her work as an interactive writer for a robotics company.