Vanessa Lawrence is a writer, editor and native New Yorker. For almost two decades, she covered fashion, society, culture, design, art, and beauty on staff at publications including WWD and W Magazine. She has interviewed a wide range of creative personalities, such as Anna Sui, Kristen Stewart, Norma Kamali, Janelle Monae, Sandra Oh, Emma Watson, Kyle Abraham, Laura Kim, Judith Light, Sarah Sze, Timothée Chalamet, Jennifer Hudson, and Riley Keough, among many others. She graduated from Yale University with a B.A. in history and she has an MFA in Writing from Sarah Lawrence College. Her novel, Sheer, published by Dutton Books in January 2026, was an Indie Next Pick and received a starred review from Booklist. Her debut novel, Ellipses, was published by Dutton in March 2024. Ellipses was chosen by Electric Literature as a Queer Book You Need to Read in 2024, by ELLE as a Best/Most Anticipated Fiction Book of 2024 So Far and by Vogue as a Best Book of 2024 (So far). Her next novel, Patron, is forthcoming from Dutton.