Carissa Chesanek

Carissa Chesanek has worked as a journalist for many years, writing for publications that include Food Network, The Village Voice, Miami Herald, Forbes Travel Guide, and Zagat where she was the Miami editor for two years. She is a current MFA Creative Writing (fiction) student at The New School and working on her debut novel. Her creative writing was nominated for the Freddie Award for Writing Excellence with the Mystery Writers of America and shortlisted for Frith Books’s anthology, Restless. She is a fiction reader for Carve Magazine and a volunteer writing mentor for PEN America's prison writing program, and does work with The Center for Fiction.