Elissa Schappell is the author of two books of fiction, Blueprints for Building Better Girls and Use Me, which was a runner-up for the PEN/Hemingway award. She is a co-founder and now Editor-at-Large of Tin House and a contributing editor to Vanity Fair. She teaches in the Columbia MFA program and the low-res MFA at Queens in Charlotte, NC. She lives in Brooklyn.
Writer Rachel Urquhart discusses her novel The Visionist, the complex nature of Shaker society, the use of restraint when writing about violence, and what it means to "write like a man."