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Elissa Bassist

Elissa Bassist
Elissa Bassist is an essayist, humor writer, and editor of the “Funny Women” column on The Rumpus. As a founding contributor to The Rumpus, she’s written cultural, feminist, and personal criticism since the website launched in 2009. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, Marie Claire, Creative Nonfiction, NewYorker.com, Longreads, and more, including the anthology Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture, edited by Roxane Gay. Currently, she teaches writing at The New School, Catapult, 92nd Street Y, and Lighthouse Writers Workshop. She lives in Brooklyn and is probably her therapist’s favorite.


When Your OCD Therapy is Also a Treatment for Writers’ Block

Elissa Bassist on Learning to Lean in to the Fear of Writing Like an Idiot
September 16, 2022  By Elissa Bassist
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