Elissa schappell biography

American writer and publisher

Elissa Schappell is an American novelist, short-story writer, editor and essayist.

She was a co-founder and editor of the literary magazine Tin House.

Writing career

Schappell graduated from New York University with an MFA in creative writing.^[1] Her first job in publishing was with Spy magazine in the 1980s.^[2]

Schappell's first book of fiction, Use Me, a collection of 10 linked short stories, was published in 2000 by William Morrow, and was runner-up for the PEN/Hemingway Award.^{[citation needed]} A second book of fiction, Blueprints for Building Better Girls, was published by Simon & Schuster in 2011.^[3] It was chosen as a "Best Book of the Year" by The San Francisco Chronicle, The Bosto