Elissa Schappell is an American novelist, short story writer, editor and essayist. Her first book of fiction, Use Me a collection of ten linked short stories, was published in 2000 by William Morrow, and was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award. She is the co-founder of the literary magazine Tin House and Editor-at-Large. She was previously a Senior Editor at The Paris Reivew. Schappell has co-edited two anthologies of essays The Friend Who Got Away, published in 2005 by Doubleday and Money Changes Everything, published in 2007 by Doubleday. She is a Contributing-editor at Vanity Fair, and author of the "Hot Type" book column.[1] A second book of fiction, Blueprints for Building Better Girls, is due out from Simon & Schuster in 2011.
Schappell graduated from New York University with an MFA in creative writing.[2] Her first career work was for Spy magazine in the 1980s, under founding editor E. Graydon Carter. She has contributed articles to magazines such as GQ, Vogue and Spin. Her fiction, interviews and essays have appeared in such places as BOMB, One Story, Nerve, The KGB Bar Reader, The Paris Review: Beat Writers at Work, The Mrs Dalloway Reader and The Bitch in the House. She has written book reviews for the New York Times.[3]