Anthony Swofford

Anthony Swofford served in a U.S. Marine Corps Surveillance and Target Acquisition/Scout-Sniper platoon during the first Gulf War. He attended American River College; the University of California, Davis; and the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. He has taught at the University of Iowa and Lewis and Clark College, and his work has appeared in The New York Times, Harper's, Men's Journal, Details, and The Iowa Review. A Michener-Copernicus Fellowship recipient, he lives in Oakland, California, and teaches at St. Mary's College.