David J. Morris

David J. Morris is a former Marine and author of Storm on the Horizon (Free Press, 2004), an account of the Battle of Khafji in the Gulf War. His essay, “The Big Suck” (Winter 2007), was chosen for Best American Nonrequired Reading 2007, and “Trophy Town” (Winter 2008) shared the 2008 Staige D. Blackford Prize for Nonfiction.

Published in VQR

• Empires of the Mind: SERE, Guantánamo, and the Legacies of Torture, Winter 2009
• Trophy Town, Winter 2008
• The Image as History: Clint Eastwood’s Unmaking of an American Myth, Spring 2007
• The Big Suck: Notes from the Jarhead Underground, Winter 2007
• Entries from The New Combat Contradictionary