Contributors’ Bios
 Poet and essayist Horace Coleman is a Vietnam
veteran and a long-standing member of VVAW (Vietnam Veterans Against the
War). Nominated for the Nobel Prize in
Literature in 2004, Coleman says “I’m not a pacifist; I just really hate
waste!” He’s published in nationally distributed anthologies, little
magazines, at web sites and had his work discussed in academic texts
(Dismantling Glory, Radical Vision). Partial publication list: Asheville
Review, Between a Rock & a Hard Place, Carrying the Darkness,
Demilitarized Zones, From Both Sides Now, Giant Talk, In Search of Color
Everywhere, In the Grass, Incoming, Peace Is Our Profession, The Vietnam War
in American Stories, Songs, and Poems, Unaccustomed Mercy, What Shall We Tell
Our Children About Vietnam? He’s the recipient of a Senior Fellowship from
the Fine Arts Work Center (Provincetown)
and an Individual Artist Grant from the Ohio Arts Council.
Michael
Gillen entered the Merchant Marine in 1967, with
Vietnam
service in 1969. He teaches Asian
History at Pace University in Pleasantville,
New York, and a course on the Vietnam War at
Purchase College, State University of New
York. He lives in White Plains, New York. mailto:mgillen@pace.edu
Marc
Levy served in Delta 1/7 First Cav
as an infantry medic in Vietnam
and Cambodia
in 1970. He was decorated for gallantry and valor. He has
backpacked in Central America, Southeast Asia,
Indonesia, and Europe. He has studied writing with Larry
Heinemann and Tim O’Brien. His work appears in various publications,
most recently in New Millennium Writings. A video of his war related prose
and photographs, The Real Deal, is distributed by The Cinema Guild (www.cinemaguild.com).
Gerald McCarthy
as born in Endicott, New York
of an Italian mother and Irish father. When he was seventeen,
he enlisted in the Marines and was sent to Vietnam. He unloaded cargo from
ships for two months at FLSG-Bravo with the 1st Marines
and then was transferred to the 1st Combat Engineer Battalion
in Chu Lai and then Danang. After his return from Vietnam, he deserted and spent time
in military prison. Upon his discharge he worked as a stonecutter,
concrete finisher and shoe factory worker before attending The Writers
Workshop at The University of Iowa.
He is the author of War Story (The
Crossing Press) and Shoetown (Cloverdale Library). A recipient
of awards from the National Writers Union and The New York State Council
on the Arts; his poetry, fiction and criticism have appeared in New
Letters, TriQuarterly, America, Beloit Poetry
Journal, Ohio Review, Rattle, Ploughshares,
Poet Lore, Nimrod, Carrying the Darkness, From Both Sides
Now, A New Geography of Poets, Unaccustomed Mercy: Soldier Poets of
The Vietnam War, Asheville Poetry Review and other magazines &
anthologies. Active in Vets for Peace and Vietnam Veterans Against
the War, he has twice been a visiting artist at The American Academy
in Rome and has taught workshops in schools, colleges, migrant
labor camps, and Attica Prison. Currently Professor of English at
St. Thomas Aquinas College, he lives with his wife Michele and their
three sons in Nyack, New York.
Per-Olof Odman, a Swedish citizen served
in the U, S. marine Corps, 1967-69, infantry.
Service in Vietnam,
1967-68; D Co., 1st Bn., 26th Marine Regiment. Currently he lives a in the Vinegar Hill
area of Brooklyn with his wife Monique.
Robert “Tack” Trostle enlisted in the U.S. Army with service in Vietnam,
1970’s. He has returned twice to Vietnam to
deliver medical supplies in the form of reconciliation. Currently he lives
and works in Lancaster Pennsylvania.
Dayl
S. Wise was drafted into the US Army in 1969 and
served in Vietnam and Cambodia in 1970 with the Echo 2/5 First Air
Cav. Wounded; he return from Vietnam,
and upon his discharge, studied engineering and worked as a draftsperson and
design engineer for many years. He is a member
of VVAW (Vietnam Veterans Against the War) and Veterans for Peace. Recently
he returned to school to become a teacher. He lives part time in the Bronx
and Woodstock, New York with his wife, Alison; Molly, a
Labrador-pit bull mix and six, a calico cat with a bad leg. He self published
a chap book, The
Best of Post Traumatic Press 2000, a collection of poems by veterans and
the author of Poems and other stuff
(Post Traumatic Press). mailto:dswbike@aol.com
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