MaxieJane is retired Senior Military Faculty from the United States Air Force Academy and an author/editor. Her writing has been published in The Willa Cather Review, The Routledge Companion to Literature and Food, as well as anthologies of critical essays. A graduate of the Bennington Writing Seminars, she is currently working on a novel and a military memoir.
Moral Injury: Invisible War Wounds in Fidelis

Moral Injury: Invisible War Wounds in Fidelis

Teresa Fazio’s memoir, Fidelis, is the story of agency, power struggles, and life lessons learned on a young Marine’s deployment and over the years after she returns. Her experience places her narrative within the scope of widely varied war literature such as Karen...

Here Is Where My War Story Begins

Here Is Where My War Story Begins

I end wars. When I arrive at bases and conflicts, my job is to help close them, move them, go underground. My military experiences travel the circumference of war, seldom intersecting the dangerous center of the bulls-eye target. My first duty station closed more than...

What if? An Alternate, Warring Future

What if? An Alternate, Warring Future

Matt Gallagher builds a strange but familiar world in his new novel, Empire City. An incredible mix of speculative genres, he has a science fantasy, alternate history/future, superhero, dystopian view on what would happen to our country, and in some ways the world, if...