Elissa Schappell is an American novelist, short story writer, editor 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 a finalist 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. 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. She is a Contributing-editor at
Vanity Fair, and author of the "Hot Type" book column.A second book of fiction,
Blueprints for Building Better Girls, was published by
Simon & Schuster in 2011.