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Maurice Chammah

Maurice Chammah
Maurice Chammah is a journalist and staff writer for The Marshall Project. His reporting on the criminal justice system has been published by The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Atlantic, Esquire, and Mother Jones. He lives in Austin, Texas, where he and his wife Emily Chammah co-organize The Insider Prize, a fiction and essay contest for incarcerated writers sponsored by American Short Fiction.


What Fiction Can Teach Journalists: A Reading List From Maurice Chammah

Using Literary Techniques to Write True—and Urgent—Stories
January 29, 2021  By Maurice Chammah
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A Brief History of the Death Penalty in America

Maurice Chammah on the Country's Ambivalence Toward Democratized Killing
January 26, 2021  By Maurice Chammah
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