
Greg Olear is The Nervous Breakdown’s senior editor and the author of
the novels Totally Killer and Fathermucker. A speaker at the 2011
Quais du Polar literary festival in Lyon, France, he teaches fiction
writing at Manhattanville College. He lives with his family in New
Paltz, N.Y.

Elissa Schappell is the author of the novel USE ME, and co-editor with Jenny Offill of the anthologies The Friend Who Got Away and Money Changes Everything. She is a contributing editor of Vanity Fair, co-founder of Tin House magazine where she is currently Editor-at-Large, and a frequent contributor to the New York Times Book Review. Her long awaited collection BLUEPRINTS FOR BUILDING BETTER GIRLS was just published in September.
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