Elissa Schappell is the author of two books of fiction, most recently
Blueprints for Building Better Girls, and
Use Me, which was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway award, a
New York Times Notable Book and a
Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year. She is also the co-editor with Jenny Offill of two anthologies,
The Friend Who Got Away and
Money Changes Everything. She's currently a contributing editor at
Vanity Fair where she writes the book column, a co-founder and editor-at-large of
Tin House magazine, and a former senior editor of
The Paris Review. Her work has appeared in many publications including
The New York Time Book Review, Vogue, SPIN, BOMB, One Story and anthologies such as
The Mrs. Dalloway Reader, Cooking and Stealing, Lit Riffs, The KGB Bar Reader and
The Bitch in the House. She lives in Brooklyn.
