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. His work has appeared in Esquire, ESPN, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Paris Review, and Wired, among other places.

A graduate of Wake Forest and Columbia Universities and a US Army veteran of the Iraq war, Gallagher was featured in Vanity Fair as one of the voices of a new generation of American war literature. In 2017, Senator Elizabeth Warren read his Boston Globe op-ed “Trump Rejects the Muslims Who Helped Us” on the US Senate Floor, and his work in March 2022 helping train a civilian defense force in Lviv, Ukraine, was featured on CNN's Anderson Cooper 360. Among other media, he has appeared on CBS News Sunday Morning and NPR’s The Diane Rehm Show, and he was interviewed at the 92nd Street Y in Manhattan by retired general David Petraeus. He lives in Colorado Springs with his family.