Fall 2008

Elliott D. Woods is a contributing editor to VQR. His VQR-sponsored website Assignment Afghanistan received the 2011 Digital National Magazine Award for Multimedia Package. His essay “Digging Out,” from the Fall 2010 issue, was nominated for a 2011 National Magazine Award in Reporting. His essay “Hope’s Coffin,” from the Summer 2009 issue, received a citation for the Madeline Dane Ross Award from the Overseas Press Club. His other essays and photographs have appeared in Outside Magazine, Businessweek, Granta, Men’s Journal, and Mother Jones.

Brian Turner is the author of a memoir, My Life as a Foreign Country (Norton, 2014), and two collections of poetry, Here, Bullet (Alice James, 2005) and Phantom Noise (Alice James, 2010). He’s the editor of The Kiss (Norton, 2018) and coeditor of The Strangest of Theatres (McSweeney’s, 2013). Turner’s work has appeared in the New York Times, the Guardian, National Geographic, Harper’s, and elsewhere. He lives in Orlando, Florida, and directs the MFA program at Sierra Nevada University.

Laura Browder’s most recent book is Her Best Shot: Women and Guns in America (North Carolina, 2006). She is the writer/co-producer of the documentary Gone to Texas: The Lives of Forrest Carter, which she is completing this winter with the support of ITVS and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. “When Janey Comes Marching Home: Portraits of Women Combat Veterans” will be on display at the Visual Arts Center of Richmond from September 12 until December 14 before traveling.