Sylvia Bowersox

Sylvia Bowersox served one tour in Iraq as an Army broadcast journalist, and two tours in Baghdad as a State Department portfolio press officer. She has a MA in English from Chico State University, and is now a MFA student in the Creative Writing Workshop at the University of New Orleans. She lives with PTSD, and writes about her experiences in both wars. She has been honored by multiple Pushcart nominations. Her work has appeared in the journal 0-Dark-Thirty, Tethered by Letters, Solstice Literary Magazine, Mortar Magazine, Bramble Literary Magazine, The Washington Post, and the anthology, It’s My Country Too. She lives in Wisconsin with her veteran husband, Jon and her Black Labrador service dog, Timothy.