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Book Description
A Chapbook of short stories selected as the 2011 Iron Horse Literary Review Single Author Chapbook competition winner by Kelly Cherry (author of The Retreats of Though: Poems). From the sands of the middle east to the sands of the Mojave Desert, these characters struggle with the expectations of those around them and with their own desires. Kelly Cherry says that: "Waiting for the Enemy could be called a fictional memoir of war. It is studded with sharp, stinging truths about life and death, family and friendship, and what wars do to those who fight them...Again and again I was startled by the precision of language, vivid characterization, and the clarity of the author's vision, which is both bleak and courageous."
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Brandon Davis Jennings is an Iraq War Veteran from West Virginia. After serving 4 years in the USAF, he earned a Bachelor's degree in journalism from West Virginia University and then went on to get an MFA in fiction at Bowling Green State University and finished school with a Ph. D in English from Western Michigan University. His work is often centered around issues with contemporary masculine struggles in the military and outside of it. He's been published in a large number of magazines (Triquarterly, Passages North, Hayden's Ferry Review, Black Warrior Review, and Crazyhorse to name a few), and he has won both The Thomas J. Hrushka nonfiction contest and the Iron Horse Literary Review Single Author Chapbook competitions. He lives in South Bend Indiana with his wife Tina, and their two dogs Finn MacCool and Macha. In addition to writing he is attempting to figure out the art of househusbandry.
Thanks so much, Kathleen. This was great to come home to see after my wife and I finished our half-marathon.
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