Meet David Chrisinger

David Chrisinger (CHICAGO, IL) is the director of the policy writing program at the University of Chicago’s Harris School of Public Policy. He is the author of Public Policy Writing That Matters and Stories Are What Save Us: A Survivor's Guide to Writing about Trauma and the editor of See Me for Who I Am: Student Veterans' Stories of War and Coming Home.

Published Works

Info page for book: Public Policy Writing That Matters

Public Policy Writing That Matters

David Chrisinger
foreword by Deborah Stone

third edition

Publication Date: April 7, 2026

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Because Data Can't Speak for Itself

A Practical Guide to Telling Persuasive Policy Stories

David Chrisinger and Lauren Brodsky

Publication Date

2023

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Public Policy Writing That Matters

David Chrisinger
foreword by Katherine Baicker

second edition

Publication Date

2022

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Stories Are What Save Us

A Survivor's Guide to Writing about Trauma

David Chrisinger
foreword by Brian Turner, author of My Life as a Foreign Country
afterword by Angela Ricketts, author of No Man's War

Publication Date

2021