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Chris Lombardi
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Freelance Contributor, Freelance
Philadelphia
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Biography
As a journalist I've been reporting on war and peace issues for about 20 years. My book, I Ain't Marching Anymore (https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781620973172), comes from that reporting and support from hundreds of veterans and fellow journos. My work co-editing DSA's Democratic Left keeps me busy working with exciting writers. My work at a Manhattan weekly won awards for in-depth reporting, an exploration of life at a local medium-security prison, and for community service for my investigation of illegal hotels in Manhattan; I've also won awards for consumer health reporting, for my coverage of disability. My work has also appeared in The Nation, Boston Review, Guernica, On the Issues, The American Bar Association Journal and elsewhere. Long before I knew I was a journalist, I knew I had a deep interest in history – and in questions about war and personal responsibility. Majoring in history and English at Binghamton University, I wrote a play about the Vietnam era when I was a junior,its main character a woman who lets her apartment be used as a way station for draft resisters on their way to Canada. I then became a staff writer for non-profits, including five years on the staff of the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors (CCCO). It was at that last organization, founded in 1948 to ensure the rights of nonsectarian CO’s, that my interest in the lives of soldiers really emerged: I coordinated the GI Rights Hotline for a time, and also compiled a history of CCCO for its 50th-anniversary celebrations in 1998. I also helped survivors of military rape organize themselves into Survivors Take Action against Abuse by Military Personnel (STAMP), and began to speak out on TV and radio about issues such as hazing, recruiter fraud, and military courts. And I began to write op-ed pieces through the Progressive Media Project, which ran in the 1990s over Scripps Howard and Knight-Ridder Media Services. After moving to New York in 2000, I became a full-time writer while pursuing my education: in 2002 I earned a Master of Arts in creative writing at City College of New York, where I won the Lowell de Jur Prize and Germaine Griffin Moore Prize, and spent 2005-2006 earning a Masters of Science in Journalism at Columbia University. But I'd never quite given up thinking about soldiers. My masters’ project at Columbia, “Saving Sgt. Aguilar,” followed a new Iraq vet through his first six months home, and first developed this book in Professor Samuel G. Freedman's famed Book Seminar , securing research funding with the Lynton Fellowship in Nonfiction Book Writing. I've also taught nonfiction writing both at the City University of New York and at Gotham Writers Workshop, where I also ran workshops in fiction writing. My short story “San Francisco in the 1990s,” published in Failbetter.com, was nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and in 2000 my novel The Suicide Project was a finalist for the Bellwether Prize, Barbara Kingsolver’s prize for “a literature of social change.” I now live in Philadelphia, birthplace and home town of my wife, computer engineer Rachel Rawlings — where my home is within walking distance of a new mural created by veterans of post-9/11 wars.
law, feminism, politics film industry, human rights, military history women's issues, writers, violence against womenmilitary personnel, interactive journalism, environmental justice non-fiction
software, automobiles
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Company Info
Freelance
De Pere, Wisconsin, United States