Adrian Bonenberger is a combat veteran, freelance journalist, and writer. He's in his second year at SUNY Stony Brook Southampton's MFA program for creative writing.

Kayla Williams is a former sergeant and Arabic linguist in a Military Intelligence company of the 101st Airborne Division. She is the author of the books Love My Rifle More Than You: Young and Female in the US Army and Plenty of Time When We Get Home: Love and Recovery in the Aftermath of War.

Brian Castner, the author of All the Ways We Kill and Die and the war memoir The Long Walk, is a nonfiction writer and former explosive ordnance disposal officer. His work has appeared in VICE, Wired, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Foreign Policy, the Daily Beast, and on National Public Radio.

Angela Ricketts