M. C. Armstrong is Assistant Professor of English at North Carolina A&T State University, USA, and is the author of The Mysteries of Haditha (2020), one of the "Best Books of 2020" (The Brooklyn Rail). Armstrong embedded with Joint Special Operations Forces in Al Anbar Province, Iraq in 2008, and has published extensively on the Iraq War through The Winchester Star. He is the winner of a Pushcart Prize, and his fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Esquire, The Missouri Review, The Gettysburg Review, and other journals and anthologies.