Gina Gionfriddo is a playwright (After Ashley, U.S. Drag) and television writer (Law and Order: Criminal Intent).She last wrote for the Believer about Elliott Smith (June 2004 music issue). She lives in New York.

• June/July 2007: Radcliffe, Shelley, Freud, Reznor
  How the Gothic novel, British Romanticism, and Freudian psychoanalysis helped sell many, many Nine Inch Nails records.
• June 2004: XO Elliott
  The open dishonesty of Elliott Smith’s music gives it its agonizing poignancy. A fan remembers the man whose songs stood by her.