Brandon Lingle’s work appears widely in The New York Times At War blog, TIME Battleland, The North American Review, Guernica, Epiphany, National Geographic.com, Narrative, War, Literature & the Arts, Evergreen Review, and Mississippi Review. His essays are notables in The Best American Essays 2010 and 2013. An active-duty Air Force officer, he served in Iraq and Afghanistan, was an assistant professor in the English Department at the U.S. Air Force Academy, and currently lives in Northern California. He serves as Art Director and Nonfiction Editor of War, Literature & the Arts: An International Journal of the Humanities.