PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel
1 appearances
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Edition 26 (2001) Runner-up
Elissa Schappell
エリッサ・シャペル
Erissa Shapperu
Profile
- Gender
- Female
- Born
- Delaware
- Nationality
- American
- Languages
- English
- Religion
- Unknown
- Residence History
- Delaware → Brooklyn, New York
Career
- Occupations
- Novelist, Short story writer, Editor, Essayist
- Active Years
- 1980-2024
- Affiliations
- Tin House (co-founder and editor), Vanity Fair (contributing editor), The Paris Review (Senior Editor)
- Nominations
- PEN/Hemingway Award runner-up (Use Me, 2000)
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| New York University | — | Creative Writing | MFA | — | United States |
New York University
Creative Writing
Degree:
MFA
Country:
United States
Awards & Nominations
Works
Major Works
Use Me
2000 Short story collectionA collection of 10 linked short stories
Blueprints for Building Better Girls
2011 Short story collectionBook of fiction
Bibliography
- "Novice Bitch" in The KGB Bar Reader (1998)
- Use Me (William Morrow, 2000)
- "Crossing the Line in the Sand: How Mad Can Mother Get?" in The Bitch in the House (2002)
- "That sort of woman" in The Mrs Dalloway Reader (2003)
- "Sex and the Single Squirrel" in Cooking and Stealing: The Tin House Nonfiction Reader (2004)
- The Friend Who Got Away: Twenty Women's True-Life Tales of Friendships That Blew Up, Burned Out or Faded Away (co-edited and contributed)
- Essay on Naked Lunch in Bound to Last: 30 Writers on Their Most Cherished Book (2010)
- Blueprints for Building Better Girls (Simon & Schuster, 2011)
- "High-Strung Knitter" in Knitting Yarns: Writers on Knitting (2013)
Legacy
American novelist, short-story writer, editor and essayist. Co-founder and editor of Tin House magazine.
Trivia
- Co-founder and editor of the literary magazine Tin House, co-founded with her husband Rob Spillman.
- Originally from Delaware, now lives in Brooklyn.