Roy Scranton is the author of TOTAL MOBILIZATION: WORLD WAR II AND AMERICAN LITERATURE (University of Chicago Press, 2019), I HEART OKLAHOMA! (Soho Press, 2019), WE'RE DOOMED. NOW WHAT? (Soho Press, 2018), WAR PORN (Soho Press, 2016), and LEARNING TO DIE IN THE ANTHROPOCENE (City Lights, 2015). He earned an MA from the New School for Social Research and a PhD in English from Princeton, and has been awarded a Whiting Humanities Fellowship and a Lannan Literary Fellowship. His work has appeared widely, including in the BEST SCIENCE AND NATURE WRITING 2014, and has been called "fierce and provocative" (Elizabeth Kolbert), "elegant, erudite, heartfelt & wise"

(Amitav Ghosh), "forceful and unsettling" (Michiko Kakutani), and "brilliant" (Jeff VanderMeer). [photo credit Ola Kjelbye]

Brian Van Reet is the author of Spoils, a novel named one of the best books of 2017 by the Guardian, Military Times, the Wall Street Journal, and others. A graduate of the Michener Center for Writers, he has twice won the Texas Institute of Letters short story award. He lives in Austin with his family.

Matt Gallagher is a US Army veteran and the author of four books, including the novels Youngblood and Daybreak. His work has appeared in Esquire, ESPN, The New York Times, The Paris Review, and Wired, among other places. A graduate of Wake Forest and Columbia, he is the recipient of the Tulsa Artist Fellowship, a Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference Fellowship, a Sewanee Writers’ Conference Fellowship, and was selected as the 2022 Hemingway-Pfeiffer Museum Writer-in-Residence. He lives with his family in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

David Abrams is the author of the novels "Brave Deeds" and "Fobbit," which was named a New York Times Notable Book of 2012, a Montana Honor Book, and a finalist in the L. A. Times' Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction. It was also selected as a "best" or "favorite" book of 2012 by Paste Magazine, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and January Magazine.

David Abrams' short stories have appeared in Esquire, Glimmer Train, Narrative, Electric Literature, The Greensboro Review, The Missouri Review, and many other publications. He regularly blogs about the literary life at The Quivering Pen: www.davidabramsbooks.blogspot.com

He was born in Pennsylvania and grew up in Jackson, Wyoming. He earned a BA in English from the University of Oregon and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Alaska-Fairbanks. He now lives in Butte, Montana with his wife.

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Siobhan Fallon is the author of the award-winning books You Know When the Men Are Gone and The Confusion of Languages. Her essays and stories have been featured in the New York Times, Washington Post Magazine, NPR, Stars and Stripes, the anthologies Fire & Forget: Short Stories from the Long War and The Kiss: Intimacies from Writers, among others. Theatrical productions of her work have been performed home and abroad.

Siobhan is the wife of an active-duty Army officer who served three combat deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan. She and her family have also spent seven years living in the Middle East and the Gulf.

Her current work in progress is a novel about the disastrous Battle of the Little Bighorn. Siobhan was drawn to the subject after researching the life of military spouse Elizabeth “Libbie” Custer: George Custer’s widow.

Siobhan also has a series on YouTube titled The Lives of the Little Bighorn.

For more about Siobhan, please see www.siobhanfallon.com or her YouTube channel @SiobhanFallon7

Some reviews include:

"...gripping, straight-up, no-nonsense stories" The New York Times

"There is the war we know - from Hollywood and CNN- and then there is the battleground at home depicted by breakout author Siobhan Fallon, an army wife with...a staggering arsenal of talent, her sentences popping like small arm fire, her stories scaring a gasp out of you like tracer rounds burning in the night sky over your home town."

- Benjamin Percy, author of The Wilding, Refresh, Refresh, and The Language of Elk

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