Powder: Writing by Women in the Ranks, from Vietnam to Iraq - Softcover

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Lisa Bowden is an editor, poet and award-winning designer. As Publisher of Kore Press, she has worked on numerous contemporary writing projects and curated lectures, readings, workshops, panels and site-specific, improvisational writing collaborations. Lisa studied at the University of Arizona, Richmond International College, London, and The Visual Studies Workshop. She edited the audio volume Autumnal: A Collection of Contemporary Elegies (Kore Press, 2007). Shannon Cain is the Fiction Editor of Kore Press. She has received a creative writing fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, an O. Henry Prize and a Pushcart Prize. Her short stories have most recently appeared or are forthcoming in Tin House, The Massachusetts Review and the New England Review. She earned her MFA in 2005 from the Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College and has taught creative writing at the University of Arizona and the Gotham Writers Workshop. Helen Benedict, a professor of journalism at Columbia University, is the author of four novels and five books of nonfiction, many of which concern social justice and women. Her writings on women soldiers won the James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism in 2008, and her book, The Lonely Soldier: The Private War of Women Serving in Iraq will be published by Beacon Press in the spring of 2009.