Elna Baker is a writer, comedian, and storyteller from Tacoma, WA now living in New York. Baker is a regular contributor to “This American Life,” and has appeared on many radio shows, including “The Moth Radio Hour,” “Prairie Home Companion,” BBC Radio 4, “All Things Considered,” “WTF with Marc Maron,” “Studio 360,” and “The Joy Behar Show.” Baker has written for numerous magazines including ELLE, Glamour, Men’s Journal, O Magazine, Rookie, Refinery29, More Magazine, and xoJane.com. Baker’s memoir, The New York Regional Mormon Singles Halloween Dance (Penguin, 2010) was awarded four stars from People Magazine, and won the 2010 AML award for best humor writing. She currently scouts stories for “This American Life” and performs throughout New York.
Elna Baker
Studios
Star
Elna Baker worked in the Star studio.
Funded by Alpha Chi Omega, a national fraternity founded in 1885, Star Studio — built in 1911–1912 — was the first studio given to the residency by an outside organization. To this day, Alpha Chi sorority pledges learn the story of Star Studio and its role in supporting American arts and letters. Beginning as a nicely proportioned…