Bio
Sean Mclain Brown
Sean is a disabled Marine from the first Gulf War. He now teaches writing at De Anza College and Western Connecticut State University. His writing is featured in numerous national literary magazines and anthologies.
Jim Castellanos
His military service began at Marine Corps Recruit Depot, San Diego, on August 13, 2001. Following boot camp, he started Marine combat training at the Camp Pendleton School of Infantry and subsequently trained as an aviation ordnance systems technician at the Naval Air Technical Training Center in Pensacola, Florida.
He then trained at the Naval Air Maintenance Training Marine Unit in Cherry Point, North Carolina, specializing in helicopter weapons systems. Upon completing his training, he arrived at my permanent duty station, Marine Light Attack Helicopter Squadron 775, a UH-1 Huey and AH-1 Cobra helicopter squadron at Camp Pendleton, California.
Since he was enlisted as a Marine reservist, he was immediately discharged from active duty and put on reserve status, which enabled him to begin academic studies at the University of La Verne in California. He completed only one semester before being activated from the reserves and deploying to Al Asad, Iraq, for a seven-month combat tour in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom.
James Janko
James Janko, who studied Conservation of National Resources at the University of California in Berkeley, was a medic in the Vietnam War. He writes that his love of the natural world and his desire for peace are the forces behind his first published novel, Buffalo Boy and Geronimo.
His work has appeared in numerous literary journals and was twice nominated for the Pushcart Prize. Currently he teaches English as a Second Language and Native Language Literacy at City College of San Francisco.
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.
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