Brandon Lingle’s work appears in the New York Times, The North American Review, Epiphany, The Rumpus, Narrative, The Evergreen Review, and The Mississippi Review, among others. His essays are notables in The Best American Essays 2010 and 2013. He is an editor of War, Literature & the Arts.
Back from Iraq, a veteran meditates on the past, present, and future of American warfare, and the small creek in Virginia where they all flow together.