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Elissa Schappell

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Elissa Schappell

Elissa Schappell is the author of two books of fiction, Use Me, a finalist for the PEN Hemingway prize and Blueprints for Building Better Girls. She’s a Contributing Editor at Vanity Fair, a co-founder of Tin House, and teaches in the MFA programs at Columbia, Queens in Charlotte, and at WorkRoom.