Danielle Kessinger
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Danielle Kessinger had just graduated with a bachelor's in Literature and a minor in Nonviolence when her twin brother enlisted in the army. She taught in three countries over the course of his enlistment and two deployments in Afghanistan, the second the result of stop loss. In Japan, when they asked her what he would be doing, she did not have the words to explain travels through mountains with only the walls of the Humvee for protection, so she told them desk job. In Asheville, North Carolina, when she sent care packages, they asked her how she could be so pro-war, so she raged and started writing poetry. In Costa Rica, where they had no military, they asked her what it was like to be a soldier, to worry and wait for them, so she gave them poems. Danielle is currently at work on a novel rooted in those years.
Winning Entry: Price
Contest Won: War Poetry Contest 2011, Finalist
