Chrissos, Joan

Joan Chrissos is a writer and award-winning editor at the Miami Herald who was a key part of the paper’s 2022 Pulitzer Prize for breaking news for producing the stories of the 98 people who died in the collapse of Champlain Towers South in Surfside, Florida. She was named the 2022 Florida Editor of the Year by the Society of Professional Journalists for her work in the Surfside condo collapse, as well as overseeing the Herald’s coverage of COVID-19 and education, both K-12 and higher education. Chrissos started her journalism career as a reporter, covering local governments, business and finance, and writing a weekly column on the media. She will be at Miami Book Fair 2022 for a conversation with writer and visual artist Eric Gansworth, who was born and raised in the Tuscarora Nation, as he presents his latest novel, My Good Man (Levine Querido), in which the main character happens to be the only Indigenous writer in his newsroom’s city desk.