Elissa Altman, a writer and editor, is the author of Motherland: A Memoir of Love, Loathing, and Longing (Random House, 2019), Poor Man’s Feast: A Love Story of Comfort, Desire, and the Art of Simple Cooking, and Treyf: My Life as an Unorthodox Outlaw. She was raised in Forest Hills, Queens, during the 1960s and 1970s, a place and time that inform her work, both fiction and memoir. She studied at Cambridge University and later attended Peter Kump’s New York Cooking School. She lives in Newtown, Connecticut, with her family.
Photograph by Gentland Hayers.
WORKS THAT HAVE APPEARED IN NARRATIVE:
- Motherland, a memoir, in Stories of the Week: 2018–2019