by Seema Reza | Jul 29, 2023 | Blog, Veteran Artist Spotlight
Our July Veteran Artist Spotlight falls on Veteran & Author Kim DeFiori! Kim DeFiori (she/her/hers) is a retired Army Officer. Last year she published her first book “Lessons from Thor: Healing with a Service Dog’s Touch” and had her first ever...
by Rob Haney | Jul 27, 2023 | Blog, Events
Join us on Thursday, July 27th at 7 PM EDT to learn the art of workshop facilitation with Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg, the Kansas Poet Laureate and author. As facilitators, we hold brave spaces in our workshops so that participants can discover, name, and claim what...
by Rob Haney | Jun 24, 2023 | Blog, Veteran Artist Spotlight
A short Q&A with Veteran & Author Kayla M. Williams, ahead of her July Memoir writing workshop! Kayla M. Williams was enlisted for five years as an Arabic linguist, serving in a Military Intelligence company of the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault). She...
by Rob Haney | May 13, 2023 | Blog, Veteran Artist Spotlight
Ahead of his May 18th writing workshop, CBAW is proud to spotlight writer Kevin Basl. Kevin Basl (he/him) is a writer and musician living near Ithaca, New York. He was a mobile radar operator in the U.S. Army. Over the past decade, he has taught many writing and...
by Ben Weakley | May 9, 2023 | Blog
America cannot understand its Post-9/11 wars in their entirety without hearing the voices of the women and non-binary Veterans who served. During the Iraq War from 2003-2011, for example, 300,000 of the more than one million U.S. troops who served were women. Over 160...
