Discipline: Literature

Elissa Schappell

Discipline: Literature
Region: Brooklyn, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 1994
Elissa Schappell is an American novelist, short-story writer, editor, and essayist. Her 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. She is the co-founder of the literary magazine Tin House and editor-at-large. She was previously a senior editor at The Paris Review. She is a contributing editor at Vanity Fair, and was the longtime of author of the "Hot Type" book column. A second book of fiction, Blueprints for Building Better Girls, was published by Simon & Schuster in 2011. It was chosen as a "Best Book of the Year" by The San Francisco Chronicle, The Boston Globe, The Wall Street Journal. Newsweek/The Daily Beast, and O Magazine. She teaches at schools including Columbia University, NYU, and Queens University.

Studios

Veltin

Elissa Schappell worked in the Veltin studio.

Veltin Studio was donated by alumni of the Veltin School, a school for girls in New York with a highly respected visual arts department. As the plaque just outside the entrance attests, this studio was used by poet Edwin Arlington Robinson during most of the 24 summers he spent at MacDowell. Perhaps most famously, Thornton Wilder put the finishing…

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