Elissa Schappell writes the "Hot Type" column for Vanity Fair and is a founding editor of the new literary magazine Tin House. She received her MFA from the Creative Writing Program at New York University. She has been a senior editor at The Paris Review and has contributed to numerous magazines, including GQ, Vogue, Bomb, Bookforum, and Spin. She lives in Brooklyn.

Books by Elissa Schappell

Blueprints for Building Better Girls: Fiction

by Elissa Schappell - Fiction, Short Stories

In these eight darkly funny linked stories, Elissa Schappell delves into the lives of an eclectic cast of archetypal female characters to explore the commonly shared but rarely spoken-of experiences that build girls into women and women into wives and mothers.

The Friend Who Got Away

by Jenny Offill and Elissa Schappell

The Friend Who Got Away: Twenty Women's True Life Tales of Friendships That Blew Up, Burned Out or Faded Away

edited by Jenny Offill and Elissa Schappell - Essays, Nonfiction

Use Me

by Elissa Schappell