Adrian Bonenberger is an author, essayist, journalist and provocateur. He published his war memoirs, Afghan Post, through The Head and The Hand Press, and co-edited an anthology of original veteran fiction with Brian Castner, The Road Ahead: Stories From the Forever War. His writing has appeared in outlets including The New York Times, The Washington Post, Vice, Deadspin, Forbes, Foreign Policy, Vocativ, Commonweal Magazine, Publisher’s Weekly, and others. Not The Atlantic, though. They never published him. Even though he’s made ridiculously good pitches there