Category Archives: Contributors

Brian Turner

Brian Turner’s latest book, My Life as a Foreign Country: A Memoir has been called “Achingly, disturbingly, shockingly beautiful” by Nick Flynn and “a humane, heartbreaking, and expertly crafted work of literature” by Tim O’Brien. My Life as a Foreign … Continue reading

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Andrew Szala

Andrew Szala separated from the Army in May after eight years. He served as a Combat Medic and Licensed Practical Nurse, and saw combat in Afghanistan in 2009/2010. In the past year, he’s lost four friends to suicide and PTSD-related … Continue reading

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Kelli Hewlett

Kelli Hewlett is a Registered Nurse finishing her Bachelor’s degree in nursing at San Diego State University. She was born into a military family at Fort Jackson, South Carolina which is where she started her own army career 18 years … Continue reading

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Maj. Mariah Smith

Mariah Smith is an active duty military police officer currently assigned to Fort Bragg as the XO for a Criminal Investigation Battalion. She grew up in a Navy family but never liked the water, so she decided to join the … Continue reading

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Lisbeth Prifogle

Lisbeth Prifogle served her country as a United States Marine officer, and is currently working on a memoir about her experiences in a war zone. Lisbeth holds an MFA from Antioch University – Los Angeles. Her work was featured in … Continue reading

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Tenley Lozano

After graduating from the United States Coast Guard Academy in 2008, Tenley Lozano spent five years as an officer in the US Coast Guard. During her tenure, she worked in the engineering department on a ship that patrolled the Pacific … Continue reading

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Francisco Martinezcuello

Francisco Martínezcuello was born in Santo Domingo, República Dominicana and raised in Long Island, New York. He has been writing short stories and journaling since he was a teenager. His passion for literature and writing continued throughout his 20 years … Continue reading

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Anthony Moll

Anthony Moll (@anthonywmoll) is a poet, essayist and educator. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing & Publishing Arts and is completing his PhD in poetry and Queer theory. His chapbook about the melancholy of the modern workplace; Go to … Continue reading

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Brandon Lingle

Brandon Lingle’s work appears widely in places like The New York Times, TIME, The North American Review, Guernica, Epiphany, Slate.com, National Geographic.com, Narrative, War, Literature & the Arts, Evergreen Review, and Mississippi Review. His essays are notables in The Best … Continue reading

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Jesse Goolsby

Jesse Goolsby is an Air Force officer and the author of the novel I’d Walk with My Friends If I Could Find Them (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), winner of the Florida Book Award for Fiction and long-listed for the Flaherty-Duncan First Novel … Continue reading

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