Matt Gallagher is the Writer-in-Residence of the Institute For Future Conflict at the US Air Force Academy. He is the author of four books, including the novels Daybreak and Youngblood, a finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. He's covered the ongoing conflict in Ukraine as a correspondent for Esquire and Arrowsmith Journal, with other work appearing in World Literature Today, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Electric Literature, The Paris Review, ESPN and Wired, among other places.

A graduate of Wake Forest and Columbia Universities and a US Army veteran of the Iraq war, Matt's appeared on CBS News Sunday Morning, CNN's Anderson Cooper 360 and NPR's The Diane Rehm Show, and he was interviewed at the 92nd Street Y in Manhattan by retired general David H. Petraeus. He lives in Colorado Springs with his family.