Christina Lombardi
http://chrislombardi.me

Author, I Ain’t Marching Anymore: Dissenters, Deserters, and Objectors to America’s Wars (The New Press). Recommended by both Kirkus and Publishers Weekly, which calls it “a well-researched and wide-ranging history of America’s ‘soldier-dissenters’ and their efforts to speak truth to power.”

FREELANCE WRITER/RESEARCHER, 2000-Present

Have written features and news stories for The Nation, Poets and Writers, the American Bar Association Journal and others. Currently contributing writer for the Philadelphia Inquirer; Guernica: a Magazine of Art and Politics;  and Democratic Left.

STAFF WRITER, Community Media/Chelsea Now, 1/2007 – 8/2008

Report and write three stories a week for neighborhood weekly, from meeting reports to profiles to investigative pieces. Co-write weekly “Buzz” column. Assist in paper’s final editing stages.

LECTURER/WRITING INSTRUCTOR, 2002-2005

City University of New York, Gotham Writers Workshop
Taught nonfiction writing, fiction writing, and expository writing; classes ranged from 10-40 students.

COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR CCCO/GI Rights Hotline, San Francisco, 1995-2000

National non-profit organization. Edited and wrote features for quarterly magazine. Pitched stories and worked intensively with media including 60 Minutes, Christian Science Monitor, and 20/20. Appeared as “expert” on TV and radio, including CNN, BBC Radio, CBS News, and ABC News.

Education

M.S. Journalism, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
M.F.A. Literature and Creative Writing, City College of New York
B.A., History and English, Binghamton University

Awards

Nonfiction:

In-Depth Reporting (Second Place, Division IV), New York Newspaper Association February 2008

Community Leader Award, Housing Conservation Coordinators, October 2008

International Peace Research Association Foundation Grant, 2008

Northern Manhattan Arts Association Grant, 2008

Patient Education Information Award, Health Information Resource Ctr 2007

Lynton Book Fellowship 2006

Apex Award,Consumer Health Writing 2005

Fiction: Pushcart Prize (nomination) 2005
Griffin Moore Prize 2002
Jerome Lowell De Jur Prize, 2001
Bellwether Prize (finalist), 2000

References available upon request.