Review of Incoming: Veteran Writers on Returning Home

Here's an inspiring and succinct review of Incoming: Veteran Writers on Returning Home, an anthology of homecoming stories, in which I have an essay called "Becoming a Veteran." 

Even more gratifying, Dr. Kaurin in particular mentions my essay.

"Fourth, and connected to the aforementioned point, is the meaning of becoming a veteran and the bond of sister and brotherhood between veterans. One author relates a story of participating in the funeral of a veteran he did not know, but it wasn’t until this experience he identified as a veteran."

"The Great Unknown" appears in Hippocampus Magazine

This is my first piece to be both written and published after completing my MFA. Thanks for reading.

"Becoming a Veteran" in the anthology Incoming

I wrote an essay about finally feeling like a veteran. The feeling wasn't something that happened as soon as I got home from Iraq, it took years, actually. It took leaving the Army and moving from Anchorage to Arctic Village, and the death of another veteran for me to understand my place in the heritage of comrades of armed foreign conflict. 

That essay appears in this new anthology produced by an organization called So Say We All. I hope you'll order a copy. There are at least twenty fantastic essays in here about various experiences of homecoming. 

Peace.