Hello, I’m Elle Griffin.

I write The Elysian, a newsletter imagining a better future through essays and fiction.

My newsletter goes out to 20k subscribers and has been featured by BBC, Business Insider, Fast Company, The Information, Publisher’s Weekly, Means of Creation, and Morning Brew. For my work in human progress, I was named a Roots of Progress fellow in 2023 and in 2022, was awarded one of 10 places in Substack’s coveted fellowship program.

In 2022, I published my first book, a gothic novel called Obscurity, as a serial for my newsletter subscribers. My second book, a utopian novel called Oblivion, is a work in progress and will publish as a serial when it is complete. In 2023, I gave a TEDx talk about my experience and why serialization is the future of publishing.

I am also a freelance journalist with bylines at Esquire, Insider, Forbes, Every, and The Muse. A portfolio of my work can be found here. I hold degrees in Fashion Merchandising and French and completed my graduate studies in Mariology—the study of the Virgin Mary. For my final project, I recreated eight iconic images of the Virgin Mary using modern photography.

I live with my husband in Salt Lake City, Utah though we spend most of our time traveling, studying utopia, and working from remote corners of the world. I can be reached at elle@elysian.press.

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