DeLyn Winters is a Senior Instructor of Rhetoric and Writing at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, where one in five students is a veteran or is military-affiliated. She is co-founder and director of the Veterans Writing Community, which strives to help veterans tell their stories. Look for a link to the VWC on the “Resources” page.

Eric Stephenson served in Alpha Company, 2/75th Ranger Battalion from 1982 to 1987. He has taught English at various colleges and universities since 1998 and is also publisher, editor, and writer for US Represented, an online literary magazine dedicated to free speech and creative expression.

Professor Dana Zimbleman has served on the full-time English faculty at Pikes Peak State College since 2011. She and her husband Mike, an Air Force veteran, have been married for 21 years. They enjoy military history-related travel, wine tasting, target shooting, and spoiling their Golden Retriever Mr. Darcy.

Malcolm McCollum served in the US Army from 1964-1966. After that he taught English literature and composition, humanities and music history for 35 years at Colorado colleges and universities. During those years he also worked as a journalist, musician, bartender and criminal defense investigator. He has published Dmitri’s Agenda, The Guards (poetry), My Checkered Career and The Aim Was Song (memoirs). He can be reached at zerblonski@comcast.net.

Gary Walker is a navy vet, writer, educator, and musician who lives in Colorado. He has had fiction, nonfiction, and poetry featured in Flapperhouse, Calliope, Oracle Fine Arts Review, Lullwater Review, Aoife’s Kiss, and US Represented. His poem “Garbage” was published in Constellations: A Journal of Poetry and Fiction, and his short story “Placing Mr. T” ran in Down in the Dirt. He taught composition, literature, and journalism at Pikes Peak State College for nine years, and he now works on helping to serve adult learners. He’s on Facebook as J.G. Walker, and on Twitter, he answers to @jgwalkr.