Vanessa Lawrence

Vanessa Lawrence is a writer, editor, and native New Yorker. For nearly two decades she covered the arts, fashion, beauty, design, and New York society as a staff writer for publications including Women’s Wear Daily and W Magazine. She has a BA in history from Yale University and an MFA in creative writing from Sarah Lawrence College. Her debut novel Ellipses is out now from Dutton. Ellipses has been chosen by Electric Literature as a Queer Book You Need to Read in 2024, by Vogue as a Best Book of 2024 (So far), and by ELLE as a Best/Most Anticipated Fiction Book of 2024 So Far. Her second novel, Sheer, is forthcoming from Dutton.