Skip To Main Content
Elissa Washuta on Muck Rack

Elissa Washuta

As seen in: Medium, The New York Times, Salon, The Boston Globe, Harper's Bazaar, The Cut, Book Riot, Literary Hub, The Stranger, The Paris Review and
Is this you? As a journalist, you can create a free Muck Rack account to customize your profile, list your contact preferences, and upload a portfolio of your best work. Claim your profile

Get in touch with Elissa

Contact Elissa, search articles and posts on X, monitor coverage, and track replies from one place.

Learn more about Muck Rack

Actions

Share this page

Is this you?

As a journalist, you can create a free Muck Rack account to customize your profile, list your contact preferences, and upload a portfolio of your best work.
Claim your profile

Articles

Snapshots of Censorship: Where we are and what we know

|
By Elissa Washuta
| pen.org
This is part of PEN America’s ongoing “Snapshots of Censorship” project. Read more and share your story here. As a professor at Ohio’s flagship public university, where I teach nonfiction writing, my job is to teach students how to write about their lives, their worlds, and the conditions that formed them. That means helping them understand the contexts – historical, structural, and cultural – that have shaped the places they’re from.
Open in Who Shared Issue with article?

Even When You’re Not Playing, You’re Playing: On “Critical Hits” — Cleveland Review of Books

|
By Mason Andrew Hamberlin, Elissa Washuta
| Cleveland Review of Books Verified
Previews, Reviews, Walkthroughs, and Now This When I was seven, I wrote my first (and only) suicide note. My parents had grounded me for playing with Legos on a Sunday. I was fed up with their rules about secular toys and media. My sister, with whom I shared a room, narc-ed. Above all, my seven-year-old life wasn’t worth living because video games weren’t allowed in our house.
Open in Who Shared Issue with article?

Five Book Friday: As Above, So Below

|
By Ariana Reines, Jennifer Givhan, Lucille Clifton, Elissa Washuta
| Powell's Books Blog
Occult Literature for Your Inner Mystic While there has been a notable resurgence of literature exploring occult themes in the last few years, defining what occult literature is remains a difficult task. Challenges begin at the level of language itself.
Open in Who Shared Issue with article?
See all 57 licensed articles (59 Total)