War, Literature & the Arts was founded in 1989 and is published by the Department of English and Fine Arts at the United States Air Force Academy.  The journal is indexed in the American Humanities Index, Literary Criticism Register, The MLA American Periodical Verse, and the Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature.

WLA is a member of the Council of Editors of Learned Journals and the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses.

Opinions expressed in the journal are not necessarily those of the editors, the United States Air Force Academy, or the Department of the Air Force. 

Donald Anderson, Editor

Donald Anderson’s fiction and essays have appeared in The North American Review, Fiction International, Epoch, PRISM international, Western Humanities Review, Columbia, Michigan Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. His essay, "Luck," was listed as a "Notable Essay of 1998" in the 1999 The Best American Essays. In 1996, he received a Creative Writers’ Fellowship Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. Since 1989, he’s been Editor of War, Literature & the Arts: An International Journal of the Humanities. He’s editor, too, of Aftermath: An Anthology of Post-Vietnam Fiction (Henry Holt, 1995), and Andre Dubus: Tributes (Xavier University Press, 2001). His story "Fire Road" was awarded First Place in the Society for the Study of the Short Story 2000 Contest, and the collection Fire Road won Iowa's 2001 John Simmons Short Fiction award.

WLA publishes short fiction, poetry, personal essay/memoir, visuals, and scholarly essays, and book reviews for a general audience. Please contact Poetry, Fiction, or Book Review Editors directly. All other correspondence may be sent to:   

phone/voice mail: 719.333.8465  fax: 719.333.3932  email: editor@WLAjournal.com

Glenn Dayley, 
Creative Nonfiction Editor

Prior to becoming Creative Nonfiction Editor for WLA, Glenn Dayley worked as an editor for Southwestern American Literature, Texas Books in Review, and Concho River Review. His numerous publications include personal essays, scholarly articles, book reviews, and short stories. He taught literature and writing classes at Southwest Texas State University and Angelo State University, and currently enjoys teaching at the Air Force Academy.

WLA accepts for publication quality creative nonfiction: personal essay, memoir, ruminations of all types.

Glenn Dayley, Creative Nonfiction Editor
War, Literature & the Arts: An International Journal of the Humanities
2354 Fairchild Drive, Suite 6D207
USAF Academy CO 80840-6242

phone/voice mail: 719.333.8523  fax: 719.333.3932  email: glenn.dayley@usafa.edu

Will Hochman,
Poetry Editor

Will Hochman has published two books of poems and his poetry has appeared in more than fifty journals, magazines, anthologies and newspapers, including Chelsea, Kansas Quarterly, The Portable Lower East Side, Zone 3, Chile Verde Review, and In Praise of Pedagogy. Hochman also writes criticism for The Small Press Review and is the reviews editor for Academic Writing [http://aw.colostate.edu]. His essays on writing have appeared in Teaching Writing Creatively, Issues in Writing, The Journal of Teaching Writing, and The Salt River Review. Hochman’s collaborative work on hypertext, “Hypertext Reflections,” received “Webtext of the Year” in l998 from Kairos. After creating and directing the writing program at the University of Southern Colorado from l991-99, Hochman has recently taken a teaching position as an Assistant Professor of English at Southern Connecticut State University.  

Will Hochman, Poetry Editor
War, Literature & the Arts: An International Journal of the Humanities
Department of English
Southern Connecticut State University
501 Crescent Street
New Haven CT 06515

email: hochman@southernct.edu

William Newmiller,
Editor for Electronic Publishing

William Newmiller has been writing for the World Wide Web since 1994 and has taught literature, public speaking, and writing at the Air Force Academy since 1977.  He has long been dedicated to using technology to support the humanities.  His publications include technical articles for various computer periodicals, as well as occasional short fiction and essay.  He has also developed a variety of computer applications. 

WLA  is eager to receive your comments and suggestions on how its web site can better serve our readers.

William Newmiller, Editor for Electronic Publishing
War, Literature & the Arts: An International Journal of the Humanities
2354 Fairchild Drive, Suite 6D45
USAF Academy CO 80840-6242

phone/voice mail: 719.333.4338  fax: 719.333.3932  email: william.newmiller@usafa.edu