Randy Brown embedded with his former Iowa Army National Guard unit as a civilian journalist in Afghanistan, May-June 2011. A 20-year veteran with a one overseas deployment, he subsequently authored the 2015 poetry collection
Welcome to FOB Haiku: War Poems from Inside the Wire. He also co-edited the 2019 anthology
Why We Write: Craft Essays on Writing War. He is a three-time poetry finalist in the Col. Darron L. Wright Memorial Writing Awards. Find him on Twitter at
@FOB_haiku.
