Brian Duchaney is a freelance editor and writer.  A ten year veteran of the U.S. Army, his memoir about his military service, published by the journal War, Literature, & the Arts, was nominated for inclusion in the Best American Essays of 2014 and will be included in the forthcoming anthology: Quagmire:  Personal Responses to Iraq and Afghanistan (University of Nebraska Press). He is the author of The Spark of Fear and co-editor of the forthcoming collection Animated Mischief: 30 Years of Cartoon Subversiveness, both published by McFarland. He currently teaches at Bridgewater State University in Bridgewater, MA.