Elliot Ackerman
Elliot Ackerman’s fiction and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, the Atlantic, the New Republic, and the New York Times Magazine, among others, and have been included in The Best American Short Stories. He is a contributing editor at the Daily Beast and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He spent eight years in the military as both an infantry and special operations officer, serving multiple tours in the Middle East, and subsequently was a White House Fellow in the Obama...

