Elyssa Goodman

Elyssa Goodman is a New York-based writer and photographer. Her first book, Glitter and Concrete: A Cultural History of Drag in New York City, will be published on September 12, 2023 by Hanover Square Press. Elyssa's writing and photography have been published in Vogue, Vanity Fair, T: The New York Times Style Magazine, them., InsideHook, Elle, New York, i-D, and many others online and in print. Elyssa is also host and curator of the Miss Manhattan Non-Fiction Reading Series. She likes wearing leopard print and red lipstick, often at the same time.

translucent image of a woman's face transposed over a nighttime city scape

A Year After My Mother Died, I Had an Orgasm in Public

Horniness and grief make chaotic bedfellows.

Apr 25, 2023