Veteran’s Day Stories

Talent

David Gautreaux is an award-winning theatre actor/director and frequent recurring Guest Star on popular TV series as diverse as recent Black Monday, Snowfall, S.W.A.T., For All Mankind, The Blacklist, Damages, and How to Get Away with Murder. His acting career took a galactic step forward when cast as the young full Vulcan Science Officer Lt. Xon on the original Star Trek Phase II, leading to his portrayal of Commander Branch in STTMP.

Author

Richard Bausch is an Air Force veteran and the author of thirteen novels, nine collections of stories, and one volume of poetry and prose. His work has appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, Esquire, Harper’s,The New Yorker, Narrative, Gentleman’s Quarterly, Playboy, The Southern Review, New Stories From the South, The Best American Short Stories, O. Henry Prize Stories and The Pushcart Prize Stories; and they have been widely anthologized, including The Granta Book of the American Short Story, and The Vintage Book of the Contemporary American Short Story. He has won two National Magazine Awards, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Lila-Wallace Reader’s Digest Fund Writer’s Award, the Award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the 2004 PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story, the 2010 Dayton International Literary Peace Prize, and was the 2013 Winner of the REA award for Short Fiction. His most recent work is The Fate of Others: Stories (Knopf, 2025), which came out this year. Bausch is currently a professor at Chapman University in Orange, California.

Tom Bissell was born in Escanaba, Michigan, in 1974. His short fiction has won two Pushcart Prizes and has been published in multiple editions of The Best American Series. He has also written eight works of nonfiction, including Apostle and (with Greg Sestero) The Disaster Artist, as well as many screenplays for video games and television. Bissell lives in Los Angeles with his family.