Hello, I’m Elle Griffin.

I write The Elysian, a newsletter exploring a better future through essay collections and print pamphlets. It goes out to 20k subscribers on Substack and publishes print pamphlets on Metalabel.

In 2026, I crowdfunded $100,000+ for my next book, We Should Own The Economy, on WeFunder. Reader-investors will earn a share of book profits when it debuts.

For my work in human progress, I was named fellow for the Center for Land Economics in 2026, an O’Shaughnessy grantee in 2025, a Roots of Progress fellow in 2023, and a Substack fellow in 2022. 

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

I am also a freelance journalist with bylines at Esquire, Insider, Freethink, Forbes, Every, and The Muse. 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.

Thank you for stopping by!