{"product_id":"stories-are-what-save-us-a-survivors-guide-to-writing-about-trauma-9781421440804","title":"Stories Are What Save Us: A Survivor's Guide to Writing about Trauma","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eA seasoned writer and teacher of memoir explores both the difficulties inherent in writing about personal trauma and the techniques for doing so in a compelling way.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSince 2013, David Chrisinger has taught military veterans, their families, and other trauma survivors how to make sense of and recount their stories of loss and transformation. The lessons he imparts can be used by anyone who has ever experienced trauma, particularly people with a deep need to share that experience in a way that leads to connection and understanding. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eStories Are What Save Us\u003c\/i\u003e, Chrisinger shows--through writing exercises, memoir excerpts, and lessons he's learned from his students--the most efficient ways to uncover and effectively communicate what you've learned while fighting your life's battles, whatever they may be. Chrisinger explores both the difficulties inherent in writing about personal trauma and the techniques for doing so in a compelling way. Weaving together his journey as a writer, editor, and teacher, he reveals his own deeply personal story of family trauma and abuse and explains how his life has informed his writing. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart craft guide, part memoir, and part teacher's handbook, \u003ci\u003eStories Are What Save Us\u003c\/i\u003e presents readers with a wide range of craft tools and storytelling structures that Chrisinger and his students have used to process conflict in their own lives, creating beautiful stories of growth and transformation. Throughout, this profoundly moving, laser-focused book exemplifies the very lessons it strives to teach. A foreword by former soldier and memoirist Brian Turner, author of \u003ci\u003eMy Life as a Foreign Country\u003c\/i\u003e, and an afterword by military wife and memoirist Angela Ricketts, author of \u003ci\u003eNo Man's War: Irreverent Confessions of an Infantry Wife\u003c\/i\u003e, bookend the volume.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid Chrisinger\u003c\/b\u003e directs the Harris Writing Program at the University of Chicago as well as The War Horse's writing seminars program, which offers workshops for military veterans and their families. He is the author of \u003ci\u003ePublic Policy Writing That Matters\u003c\/i\u003e and the editor of \u003ci\u003eSee Me for Who I Am: Student Veterans' Stories of War and Coming Home\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50380747964690,"sku":"9781421440804","price":22.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_353aa400-c83b-48a7-89a0-fa71abff4720.jpg?v=1728687157","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/stories-are-what-save-us-a-survivors-guide-to-writing-about-trauma-9781421440804","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}