Elissa's writing has appeared in The Rumpus, CRAFT, Atticus Review, Silver Rose Magazine, Tangled Locks Journal, Memoir Monday, and other publications. 

She recently won the CRAFT 2023 Memoir Excerpt and Short Essay Contest, the Silver Rose Magazine Flash Fiction contest, and was a finalist for the Kenyon Review's Developmental Editing Fellowship. Her CNF piece, The Money I Get For My Body, will be published in Bimbo, a feminist anthology, forthcoming from Purple Ink Press. She's studied writing with Nick Flynn, Margo Steines, Beth Kanter, Marcelo Hernandez Castillo, Chloe Caldwell, and Sabrina Orah Mark. Currently, she's hard at work on Stripped, a memoir about her years as a sex worker and how it intersects with motherhood, getting older in a female body and a lifetime of disordered eating. She founded and was Executive Director of the theatre company, Double Helix Productions in New York. She lives and works in Massachusetts with her partner, two teenagers, a scruffy dog and a small flock of chickens.  She's lifted by their love, support, and patience for her endless need to write.