Stephen Elliott
Stephen Elliott (born ✦December 3, 1971) is an American writer, editor, and filmmaker currently living in Los Angeles who has written and published seven books and directed two films. He is the founder and former Editor-in-Chief of the online literary magazine "The Rumpus". In December 2014, he became senior editor at "Epic Magazine".
Background and education
Elliott grew up in Chicago. In his adolescence he was made a ward of the court and placed in several group homes. He attended Mather High School and the University of Illinois, and went on to receive his master's degree in cinema studies from Northwestern University in 1996. In 2001, he was awarded the Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University, given to emerging writers in fiction and poetry. He was then the Marsh McCall lecturer in Creative Writing at Stanford University. Elliott is Jewish on his father's side.
Books and journalism
Elliott went on the campaign trail and wrote a book about the 2004 U.S. presidential race, "Looking Forward to It: or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying About It and Love the American Electoral Process". His novel "Happy Baby", edited by Dave Eggers and co-published by McSweeney's and MacAdam/Cage, was released in February 2004. The paperback of Happy Baby was published by Picador in January 2005. His book "My Girlfriend Comes to the City and Beats Me Up" is a collection of S&M erotica, sometimes referred to as a sexual memoir, published by Cleis Press in 2006.
In April 2007, he published an essay about his experiment of not using the Internet for one month, writing: "I could feel my attention span lengthening. I would think about problems until I figured them out."
In 2008, he started The Rumpus, an online cultural commentary site.
In 2009, he published a true-crime memoir about the Hans Reiser murder trial called The Adderall Diaries, which was adapted into the 2015 film of the same name, in which James Franco played Elliott.
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