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Chris Dennis

Chris Dennis is a writer and public health educator from southern Illinois. He is the author of Here Is What You Do. Other work has appeared in Granta, the Paris Review, Playgirl, McSweeney’s, Literary Hub and Guernica. He holds a master’s degree from Washington University in St. Louis, where he also received a postgraduate fellowship.  

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Essays & Memoir | Issue 158 padlock
Essays & Memoir | Issue 158 padlock

In the Heart of the Hall of Mirrors

Chris Dennis

‘If the heart has a great hall then it must also have a dungeon.’

Memoir by Chris Dennis.

Essays & Memoir | Issue 156 padlock
Essays & Memoir | Issue 156 padlock

A Series of Rooms Occupied by Ghislaine Maxwell

Chris Dennis

‘What is the metaphor of the room? Of the house. Of the neighborhood.’

Chris Dennis on incarceration.

In Conversation | Issue 156
In Conversation | Issue 156

Chris Dennis | Interview

Chris Dennis & Ellah Allfrey

‘A story is a dream, and no matter how fantastic the dream is, it’s still constructed from reality.’

Fiction | Issue 114
Fiction | Issue 114

Here Is What You Do

Chris Dennis

‘It’s like there’s a piece of candy hidden deep inside you and everyone is trying to find the easiest way to get it out.’

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