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, LendingTree, CrimeReads, and Zagat where she was the Miami editor for two years. She is a current MFA Creative Writing (fiction) student at The New School in New York City 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’ anthology, Restless. She is a fiction reader for Carve Magazine and a volunteer writing mentor for PEN America's prison writing program.

Fiction

“The Most Fun We Ever Had” Plays with Family Deception

The Most Fun We Ever Had (Doubleday) is an expansive novel centering around relationships with a focus on our families. Written by Claire Lombardo, a Chicago native and Iowa Writers' Workshop graduate, her debut novel based in her home state captivates with precise prose and well-developed, realistically flawed characters. Truth…

Carissa ChesanekJuly 2, 2019