Vanessa Lawrence, author portrait
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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 on staff for publications including Women’s Wear Daily and W Magazine. She has a B.A. in history from Yale University and an MFA in creative writing from Sarah Lawrence College. Ellipses is her debut novel.