Stan Goff

Stan Goff (b. 1951) began his adult life in the US Army in January 1970. He retired from the Army in February 1996, after having served in eight conflict areas, beginning with Vietnam, mostly in Special Operations Units. He worked extensively in Latin America, and also posted to Somalia in 1993. His last deployment was to Haiti.

Since the Army, he has worked as a grocery bagger, a pizza deliveryman, a political organizer, a film consultant, a writer, an investigator, a stone mason's assistant, a deconstruction worker (taking houses apart by hand to reuse the materials), and with a permaculture project of the Adrian Dominican Sisters. He remained in contact with Haitian activists, and between 1994 and 2006 he went to Haiti twenty-one times.

His opposition to the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan and the 2003 invasion of Iraq led him into antiwar activism. He eventually became a Christian committed to nonviolence, and his latest three books, "Borderline," "Mammon's Ecology," and "Caeneus," are oriented to, but not limited to, Christian audiences. His sociopolitical outlook was formed through a critical engagement with Marxism, feminism/womanism, black nationalism, world system theory, deep ecology, and Christianity.

He began writing after he retired from the Army, and published "Hideous Dream - A Soldier's Memoir of the US Invasion of Haiti" (Soft Skull Press) in 2000. Subsequently, he published "Full Spectrum Disorder - The Military in the New American Century" (Soft Skull Press), "Sex and War" (Lulu), "Energy War - Exterminism for the 21st Century" (Lulu), "Borderline - Reflections on War, Sex, and Church" (Wipf and Stock), the war novel "Smitten Gate" (Club Orlov Press), and "Mammon's Ecology - Metaphysic of the Empty Sign" (Wipf and Stock). Later in 2018, Wipf and Stock will publish "Caenus - Violent Women in Film as Honorary Men." He is currently working on a sequel to "Smitten Gate," entitled "New Moons and Sabbaths," and a non-fiction book, "Hidden," about marriage, race, and the public-private dichotomy.

He is married to Sherry Long Goff, an Associate with the Adrian Dominican Sisters. They now live in Southeast Michigan.