Elissa Schappell

Elissa Schappell is the author of Use Me, a finalist for the PEN Hemingway award and Blueprints for Building Better Girls. She is a Contributing Editor at Vanity Fair, a former Senior Editor of the Paris Review, and a co-founder and former Editor-at-Large of Tin House. She lives in upstate New York.

In Service of the Avant Garde: On the Unlikely Success
of Siglio Press

Elissa Schappell Talks to Independent Publisher Lisa Pearson

October 25, 2022 By Elissa Schappell

Remembering My Father Through My Favorite Beatles’ Song

Elissa Schappell is Always Happy to Revisit the Octopus’s Garden

May 25, 2017 By Elissa Schappell

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