Carissa Chesanek’s father experienced undiagnosed PTSD from his experience in Vietnam. His daughter never went to war, but was diagnosed with the same illness.
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.