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August 18th, 2010

Sexual Assault and the Military: An Interview with Staff Sergeant Lisa Rose

Reports of sexual abuse in the military are now higher than that of the civilian population. An annual report released in 2009 by the Department of Defense showed an 11 percent increase in sexual assault cases among service members over the past year. According to the report, one in three female soldiers will be sexually assaulted or raped during their enlistment. …more

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June 10th, 2010

The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #4: Jen Percy in Conversation with April Somdahl

On February 20, 2007, April Somdahl’s brother Sgt. Brian Rand shot himself near Fort Campbell, Kentucky. He had just returned from Iraq and was about to become a father.

Nearly everyday while Brian was deployed, April spoke with him over Yahoo chat. …more

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Jen Percy is an MFA student at the University of Iowa’s Nonfiction Writing Program where she received an Iowa Arts Fellowship. Her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, ReDivider, The Indiana Review, The Literary Review, Brevity, PANK, Best Travel Writing 2010, and elsewhere. She has received scholarships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Stanley Foundation, and was a 2009 Writer-in-Residence at the University of Iowa Museum of Art.

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