Carissa Chesanek, Author at OC87 Recovery Diaries

Author: Carissa Chesanek

Carissa Chesanek is a New York City-based writer with an MFA in creative fiction from The New School. Her work has been seen in The Brooklyn Rail, Los Angeles Review of Books, Guernica, Writer’s Digest, among others. She was a grief facilitator at the Children’s Bereavement Center in Miami and is a current member of PEN America’s Prison Writing Committee. You may follow her on Facebook, Instagram, and/or Twitter.