The Jesus He Deserved: & Other Thoughts on War & on Returning

Sean Davis, author of The Wax Bullet War, and contributor to The Misfit Manifesto, is a Purple Heart Iraq War veteran, winner of the 2015 Legionaire of the Year Award from the American Legion, & recipient of the 2016 Emily Gottfried Emerging Leader, Human Rights award. His stories, essays, & journalism have appeared in the Ted Talk Book The Misfit's Manifesto (Simon & Schuster), Forest Ave. Press anthol. City of Weird, Sixty Minutes, Story Corps, Gobshite Quarterly, Flaunt Magazine, Human the movie, The Big Smoke. Among other things, he is the former commander of American Legion Post 134, Portland Oregon; a seasonal firefighter for the US Forest Service; and was a Portland Oregon mayoral candidate in 2016 His book Wildland Firefighting in Oregon: A History will be released by the History Press in Feb., 2019. Earlier versions of some Sean Davis pces. in this collection have appeared in Gobshite Quarterly, The Big Smoke, The Goodmen Proj., War Stories anthol., Perceptions, and The Talking River Lit. Magazine. Sean's story, Being the True Story About the Time I Waterboarded People in Portland, Oregon, for Blackwater, was shortlisted for The Iowa Review's 2018 Jeff Sharlet Memorial Award for Veterans contest.

Matthew Robinson is author of Oregon Book Award finalist The Horse Latitudes. His stories have appeared in O-Dark-Thirty, NAILED, Gobshite Quarterly, Split Lip Magazine, & Clackamas Literary Review. An Iraq veteran, he's the recipient of an Oregon Literary Fellowship & editor for the literary journals The Gravity of the Thing & Propeller. He lives, writes & teaches in Portland, Oregon.

Jacob Meeks, originally from Wyoming, is an international Humanitarian Aid worker who made his fiction debut in the Post 134 anthology War Stories 2017. A veteran of the 82nd. Airborne & Afghanistan, he's also been an aid worker for over eight years with deployments to So. Sudan, Guatemala, Libya, Jordan, Lebanon & Nigeria. When not abroad on work assignments he lives & writes in Portland, Oregon. This is his second publication. His first short story publication was in Post 134's anthology, War Stories, 2017, edited by Sean Davis, Sally Lehman & Jessica Standifird.