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First Name
Lorissa
Last Name
Rinehart
Affiliation
St. Martin's Press
Website URL
LorissaRinehart.com
Keywords
Cold War, women’s history, military history, women at war
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About Me

Lorissa Rinehart writes about art, war, and their points of intersection.

Her writing has recently appeared in Hyperallergic, Perfect Strangers, and Narratively, among other publications. Her forthcoming biography, First to the Front: The Untold Story of Dickey Chapelle, Trailblazing Female War Correspondent is due out from St. Martin’s Press in summer 2023.

When not writing she can be found photographing the natural world impinging upon the urban landscape or digging in the dirt with her husband and two sons in Santa Barbara, California.

She holds an MA from NYU in Experimental Humanities and a BA in Literature from UC Santa Cruz. She is proudly represented by Lowenstein Associates.

Recent Publications

First to the Front: The Untold Story of Dickey Chapelle, Trailblazing Female War Correspondent (St. Martin’s Press, July 2023)

Waking Life: Daydreaming on the Western Front of World War I (Lapham’s Quarterly, August  2020)

Bombs Away How: ads for drones and military payload delivery systems invaded our timelines (The Baffler, October 2019)

Media Coverage
Country Focus
Expertise by Geography
United States, Vietnam, Western Europe
Expertise by Chronology
Modern, 20th century
Expertise by Topic
Art & Architectural History, Military, Women, World War II