There have often been military writings about honor and glory, but what about love? No one returns from a deployment the same person as the one who left. Military service often opens a gap between soldiers and civilians. As we celebrate National Booklovers Month, join The Greensboro Public Library for readings and conversation with four authors writing about the military experience and its impact on romance.
This program will be conducted on Zoom webinar. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar. If you have any questions, email Beth Sheffield.
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About the Authors:
M.C. Armstrong is the author of The Mysteries of Haditha, recently published and nominated for an American "Best Book" Award by Potomac Books. He embedded with JSOF in Al Anbar Province, Iraq. He published extensively on the Iraq war through The Winchester Star. Armstrong is the winner of a Pushcart Prize and his fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Esquire, The Missouri Review, The Gettysburg Review, Monkey Bicycle, Epiphany, The Literary Review, and other journals and anthologies. He is the guitarist and lead singer for Viva la Muerte. You can follow him on Twitter @mcarmystrong.
Teresa Fazio served in the United States Marine Corps as a communications officer, deploying once to Iraq. Her writing has been published in the New York Times, Rolling Stone, Foreign Policy, Washington Post, and The Nation, as well as the anthologies Retire the Colors, The Road Ahead, and It’s My Country, Too. She is the recipient of the Consequence Magazine Fiction Prize, the Sven Birkerts Nonfiction Prize, and a fellowship at Yaddo. Her memoir Fidelis, published by Potomac Books, shows a young woman Marine officer's coming of age through the lens of a deployment relationship, and details the uneasy balance women strike while trading femininity for power in an environment where vulnerability is not only taboo, but potentially lethal.
Colin D. Halloran is a poet, author of the books Shortly Thereafter, Icarian Flux, and American Etiquette. His first collection, Shortly Thereafter won the Main Street Rag Poetry Book Award and was a Massachusetts Must Read Book of 2013. Halloran served with the US Army in Afghanistan and much of his writing stems from those experiences. Halloran also writes essays and has been featured in several anthologies.
M.L. Doyle aimed to prove her brother wrong when she joined the Army on his dare. A few decades later, she not only confirmed that she could, contrary to his warning, make it through basic training, her combat boots took her to the butt-end of nowhere and back countless times and she lived to tell about it … or write about it as it turned out. Unafraid of genre jumping, Mary has co-authored two memoirs, a three-book mystery series, a four-novella erotic romance series, and is soon to publish the second book in a planned three-book urban fantasy series. A native Minnesotan, Mary lives in Columbia, Maryland.
