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    About the Encounters

    Mar 29, 2021 3 minutes

    ELISSA BASSIST is the editor of the Funny Women column at the Rumpus. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, Marie Claire, Longreads, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Electric Lit, Bitch, Jezebel, and more. She currently teaches humor writing at the New School, Catapult in NYC and online, 92Y in NYC, the Satire and Humor Festival, and Lighthouse Writers Workshop in Denver.

    is the author of books including The Circle, The Monk

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