The Jesus He Deserved: & Other Thoughts on War & on Returning - Couverture souple

Davis, Sean; Robinson, Matthew Dean; Meeks, Jacob

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1642045810 ISBN 13 : 9781642045819

Editeur : Reprobate/Gobq, 2018

Synopsis

Three Oregon authors and combat veterans, Sean Davis, Matthew Robinson and Jacob Meeks, drawing on their experiences in Iraq, Afghanistan, Haiti, Africa and the Middle East, offer anatomies of war and of peace.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Sean Davis, author of The Wax Bullet War, and contributor to The Misfit Manifesto, is a Purple Heart Iraq War veteran, winner of the 2015 Legionaire of the Year Award from the American Legion, & recipient of the 2016 Emily Gottfried Emerging Leader, Human Rights award. His stories, essays, & journalism have appeared in the Ted Talk Book The Misfit's Manifesto (Simon & Schuster), Forest Ave. Press anthol. City of Weird, Sixty Minutes, Story Corps, Gobshite Quarterly, Flaunt Magazine, Human the movie, The Big Smoke. Among other things, he is the former commander of American Legion Post 134, Portland Oregon; a seasonal firefighter for the US Forest Service; and was a Portland Oregon mayoral candidate in 2016 His book Wildland Firefighting in Oregon: A History will be released by the History Press in Feb., 2019. Earlier versions of some Sean Davis pces. in this collection have appeared in Gobshite Quarterly, The Big Smoke, The Goodmen Proj., War Stories anthol., Perceptions, and The Talking River Lit. Magazine. Sean's story, Being the True Story About the Time I Waterboarded People in Portland, Oregon, for Blackwater, was shortlisted for The Iowa Review's 2018 Jeff Sharlet Memorial Award for Veterans contest.

Matthew Robinson is author of Oregon Book Award finalist The Horse Latitudes. His stories have appeared in O-Dark-Thirty, NAILED, Gobshite Quarterly, Split Lip Magazine, & Clackamas Literary Review. An Iraq veteran, he's the recipient of an Oregon Literary Fellowship & editor for the literary journals The Gravity of the Thing & Propeller. He lives, writes & teaches in Portland, Oregon.

Jacob Meeks, originally from Wyoming, is an international Humanitarian Aid worker who made his fiction debut in the Post 134 anthology War Stories 2017. A veteran of the 82nd. Airborne & Afghanistan, he's also been an aid worker for over eight years with deployments to So. Sudan, Guatemala, Libya, Jordan, Lebanon & Nigeria. When not abroad on work assignments he lives & writes in Portland, Oregon. This is his second publication. His first short story publication was in Post 134's anthology, War Stories, 2017, edited by Sean Davis, Sally Lehman & Jessica Standifird.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Reprobate/Gobq
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1642045810
• ISBN 13: 9781642045819
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 284
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Buchpark GmbH; https://www.buchpark.de; ; Krügerweg 1; Trebbin; Brandenburg; 14959; Allemagne