Elissa Schappell Quotes

Elissa Schappell is an American novelist, writer, editor, teacher, 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 runner up for the PEN/Hemingway Award. She was previously a Senior Editor at The Paris Review 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. A second book of fiction, Blueprints for Building Better Girls, was published by Simon & Schuster in 2011. She teaches at schools including Columbia University, NYU, and Queens University. She graduated from New York University with an MFA in creative writing.