An attorney for twenty years and a veteran of two tours in Iraq, JW Heacock retired from the military, earned a Masters in English at Belmont University, and left the practice of law to write full time. JW has been published in The Esthetic Apostle, Kestrel, and the Fredericksburg Literary and Arts Review, and was a finalist for the Iowa Review Jeff Sharlet Memorial Award. JW was NPAF Artist-in-Residence at Gettysburg National Military Park in October 2019, where we began "Freeing Gettysburg's Ghosts," a combination of short fiction, creative non-fiction, and poetry addressing the legacy and mythology of slavery and war.