December 2010: Elissa Nelson’s The Hundred Most Influential Writers…

Elissa Nelson has been making zines since high school, and from 1994-2003 she made a zine called Hope. She has also published fiction and non-fiction in publications including Slate, the Utne Reader, Seventeen, and The Sun. She is currently completing a novel and working on issue number two of The Hundred Most Influential Writers in My Life to Date, As Best I Can Remember and Mostly Not Including Zines. She teaches high school English in Hillsboro, Oregon, and she loves her job.