Elissa Bassist is the editor of the Funny Women column on TheRumpus.net. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, NYMag.com, Slate, The Paris Review Daily, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Creative Nonfiction, Jezebel, Medium, The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Daily Beast, Fast Company, Salon, The Rumpus, and in Get Out of My Crotch, a collection of twenty-one writers responding to America’s war on women’s rights and reproductive health. In April and October 2013, she contributed to Men’s Health, unlike every other month when she does the opposite. Her essay “The Never-to-Be Bride” is “Notable” in The Best American Essays 2013. Elissa co-edited the anthology Rumpus Women, Volume I (published by The Rumpus Paper Internets) with Julie Greicius. Before moving to Brooklyn, she produced and co-hosted the Literary Death Match in San Francisco.
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