Bronson Lemer is the author of The Last Deployment: How a Gay, Hammer-Swinging Twentysomething Survived a Year in Iraq (Univ. of Wisconsin Press, 2011). His work has appeared in Guernica, Creative Nonfiction, The Southeast Review, & Twentysomething Essays by Twentysomething Writers (Random House, 2006). He is a 2019 McKnight Writing Fellow and lives in St. Paul.