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Abby Murray is the editor of magazine, a publication that aims to highlight the voices of those affected by conflict. She was the poet laureate of Tacoma, Washington, and teaches a course called “Argumentation in Military and Academic Writing.” She’s a lecturer at the University of Washington’s Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, and her students come to her on fellowship from the Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Murray, who’s married to a service member, started in 2015 as part of a class she was teaching at the University of Washington Tacoma. “I was very interested in the literature that surrounds the combat story, the combat narrative. There are a lot of publications and presses that focus on

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