David Chrisinger
David Chrisinger is the director of the writing program at the University of Chicago’s Harris School of Public Policy, where he teaches storytelling and policy communication strategies. He is also a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine’s At War column and teaches memoir writing for The War Horse, the only non-profit newsroom dedicated to educating the public on military service, war and its impact. He recently finished writing a book that is part memoir, part guidebook titled “Stories Are What Save Us: A Survivor’s Guide to Writing About Trauma,” due out in 2021 with Johns Hopkins University Press.
As a Logan Nonfiction fellow, David will work on his book for Penguin Press about famed war correspondent Ernie Pyle, tentatively titled “The Unhappy Warrior: Ernie Pyle and the Story of World War II.”