Dan Fahey - Contributor, "Veterans of War, Veterans of Peace," edited by Maxine Hong Kingston.
He served with the Navy in the Persian Gulf. In 1991 he was honorably discharged as a conscientious objector. He has worked as paralegal for a veteran's service organization and is currently pursuing a PhD in international relations.
Dennis Fritzinger - Contributor, "Veterans of War, Veterans of Peace," edited by Maxine Hong Kingston.
Dennis Fritzinger is poet and veteran who served at Di An, Phuoc Vinh, Lai Khe, and Bearcat in 1969-70. He’s been published in Prairie Schooner, City Lights Anthology, and Earth First.
Doug Howerton - Contributor, "Veterans of War, Veterans of Peace," edited by Maxine Hong Kingston.
Maxine Hong Kingston - Maxine Hong Kingston: Novelist and non-fiction author whose works include Tripmaster Monkey and the National Book Award-winning The Woman Warrior and China Men.
Sean McLain Brown - Contributor, "Veterans of War, Veterans of Peace," edited by Maxine Hong Kingston.
Clair Morris - Contributor, "Veterans of War, Veterans of Peace," edited by Maxine Hong Kingston.
Scott Morrison - Contributor, "Veterans of War, Veterans of Peace," edited by Maxine Hong Kingston.
Maureen Nerli - Contributor, "Veterans of War, Veterans of Peace," edited by Maxine Hong Kingston.
Ted Sexauer - Contributor, "Veterans of War, Veterans of Peace," edited by Maxine Hong Kingston.
Ted Sexauer served eighteen months as a medic in Vietnam, 1969-70, first with 571st Medical Detachment (Helicopter Ambulance) and later with a line company of the 173d Airborne Brigade. A member of Maxine Hong Kingston's Veteran Writers' Workshop and a student of Thich Nhat Hanh, he resides in Sonoma, California.
Mike Wong - Contributor, "Veterans of War, Veterans of Peace," edited by Maxine Hong Kingston.
Maxine Hong Kingston and guests celebrate Veterans of War, Veterans of Peace, a harvest of creative, redemptive storytelling written by those most profoundly affected by war.
Since 1991, author and peace-maker Maxine Hong Kingston has been leading meditation-and-writing workshops for veterans and their families. This book is a collection of the essays, poems, and stories of these veterans of war and veterans of peace. Vast in scope and in heart, it is the distilled wisdom of survivors of five wars. The contributors to this volume - combat veterans, medics, and others who served in war; gang members, drug users, and victims of domestic violence; draft resisters, deserters, and peace activists - are part of a large community of writers working together to heal the trauma of war through art. Reading their words, we witness worlds torn apart then rebuilt. Those speaking this evening, in addition to Kingston, are Maureen Nerli, Doug Howerton, Ted Sexauer, Clare Morris, Mike Wong, Sean Mclain Brown, Dan Fahey, and Dennis Fritzinger. Kingston is the author of The Fifth Book of Peace, To Be the Poet, Hawai'i One Summer, Tripmaster Monkey, China Men, and The Woman Warrior. - Cody's Books