Craig Malisow is a journalist for the Houston Press. He has written for many other publications including Spy Magazine, the Kansas City Star, the Hammond Daily Star, and Living Blues Magazine. His body of work covers a wide variety of topics, including serial killers (he once interviewed John Wayne Gacy before Gacy was put to death for his crimes), medical malfeasance, fraud, child abuse, music, and the plight of stray and unwanted dogs.
He has won numerous awards for his writing, including the 2014 PEN Award for Journalism, for his piece, "Deadly Charades." PEN recipients of other categories from that same year include such literary luminaries as Judd Apatow and Norman Lear.
Malisow's other awards in the field include:
2013 - Lone Star Awards "Fantasy Land"
2013 - Lone Star Awards "No Saving Grace"
2012 - First Amendment Awards/The Fort Worth Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, published December 15, 2011 "Down the Hatch"
2012 - Lone Star Awards, published December 15, 2011 "Down the Hatch"
2012 - First Amendment Awards/The Fort Worth Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, published March 10, 2011 "Betting Their Lives"
2012 - Maggies: The Magazine Awards of Western Publishing, published December 15, 2011 "Down the Hatch"
2012 - Lone Star Awards, published March 10, 2011 "Betting Their Lives"
2012 - Best of the West/First Amendment Funding, Inc., published December 15, 2011 "Down the Hatch"
2011 - Best of the West/First Amendment Funding, Inc., published October 14, 2010 "The Littlest People"
2011 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published December 30, 2010 "Prison Pays"
2011 - Lone Star Awards, published December 30, 2010 "Prison Pays"
2011 - Lone Star Awards, published January 21, 2010 "Net Gains and Losses"
2010 - Lone Star Awards, published January 29, 2009 "BARC Sucks"
2010 - First Amendment Awards/The Fort Worth Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, published January 29, 2009 "BARC Sucks"
2010 - Lone Star Awards, published July 16, 2009 "Cover Me"
2010 - First Amendment Awards/The Fort Worth Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, published July 16, 2009 "Cover Me"
2010 - First Amendment Awards/The Fort Worth Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, published December 3, 2009 "Credit Repair"
2009 - Maggies: The Magazine Awards of Western Publishing, published July 17, 2008 "Selling You"
2009 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published July 17, 2008 "Selling You"
2009 - First Amendment Awards/The Fort Worth Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, published July 17, 2008 "Selling You"
2009 - Lone Star Awards, published July 17, 2008 "Selling You"
2009 - Lone Star Awards, published September 18, 2008 "Language Barrier"
2007 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published June 8, 2006 "The Plane Truth"
2007 - Lone Star Awards, published June 8, 2006 "The Plane Truth"
2007 - Lone Star Awards, published September 21, 2006 "Penal Violations"
2007 - Lone Star Awards, published February 2, 2006 "Wize Guys"
2007 - Lone Star Awards, published June 15, 2006 "Feel My Pain"
2006 - Katie Awards, published April 7, 2005 "Exposed Nerve"
2006 - Maggies: The Magazine Awards of Western Publishing, published April 7, 2005 "Exposed Nerve"
