Elias was raised in Vermont, attended Concord Academy, and graduated from the University of Vermont magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa in 2007 with a BA in Art History and English. He interned at the Huffington Post in 2006 and co-founded the still-active student newspaper The Water Tower during his senior year. After graduating, Elias moved to New York City to work for one of his heroes, Lewis Lapham, serving as Senior Editor at Lapham’s Quarterly for seven years from 2008 to 2015. His role there entailed working on the magazine’s first thirty issues and editing anthologized essays by writers like Anne Fadiman, Pico Iyer, Simon Winchester, and Michael Wood.<\/p>\n
Elias started agenting in 2015 when he joined the Zachary Shuster Harmsworth Literary Agency (now Aevitas Creative Management) and he joined Massie & McQuilkin Literary Agents in 2018, where he currently works as a Literary Agent. He has written personal essays and criticism for the Columbia Journalism Review, the Nation, the Georgia Review, and Vogue, among other publications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"class_list":["post-991132","agent","type-agent","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n