Elissa Bassist edits the “Funny Women” column on The Rumpus and is the author of the award-deserving Hysterical: A Memoir. As a founding contributor to The Rumpus, she’s written cultural, feminist, and personal criticism since the website launched in 2009. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, Marie Claire, Creative Nonfiction, and more, A LOT MORE, including the anthology Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture, edited by Roxane Gay. She teaches humor writing at The New School, Catapult, 92NY, and Lighthouse Writers Workshop, and she is probably her therapist’s favorite.
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