M.C. Armstrong

M. C. Armstrong embedded with JSOF in Al Anbar Province, Iraq. He published extensively on the Iraq war through The Winchester Star. He is the winner of a Pushcart Prize. His fiction and non-fiction have appeared in Esquire, The Missouri Review, The Gettysburg Review, Mayday, Monkeybicycle, Epiphany, The Literary Review, and other journals and anthologies. His memoir, 'The Mysteries of Haditha,' was published in 2020 and his acclaimed first novel 'American Delphi, the first part of a trilogy and excerpted here, was published in October 2022 by Milspeak Books. Recently, he curated and edited an issue of The American Book Review called 'Soldier Writing.' He is the lead singer and rhythm guitarist for Viva la Muerte and lives in Greensboro, North Carolina with Yorick, his corgi, whose interruptions to his writing are frequent but welcome.