Jack Lewis is a guy who builds furniture and fixes motorcycles in Seattle, Washington. He deployed to Iraq in late 2004 with a detachment of Army Reserve soldiers (361st Psychological Operations Company), good people in hard circumstances that are hardly describable, although he hinted obliquely at it in various dispatches home. Jack's scribbling experience includes a couple of hundred news and opinion pieces in small newspapers, for which he received a Society of Professional Journalists editorial writing award and the Darrell Bob Houston Journalism Prize along with other scattered kudos before accidentally growing up and moving into the family business.

Two of Jack Lewis' short stories are featured in Operation Homecoming, the award-winning anthology of stories written by military personnel and their families and edited by Andrew Carroll about military service in Iraq and Afghanistan. These stories, "Purple Hearted" and "Road Work" have been featured in numerous articles about the book, two related documentary films, and have received other acclaim.

• "Purple Hearted" was selected as the NEA's exemplar in their newsletter. It was also published in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, featured in Soldier of Fortune magazine and picked up by Stryker News.
• "Road Work" was nominated for a Pushcart Prize by "Facets A Literary Magazine." It was subsequently featured on the New Yorker Online, profiled in two documentaries and read at Symphony Space as an NPR "Selected Short."

Jack's current project is a collection of stories about his time in Iraq, and his relationship with the US military throughout his life, tentatively titled The Soldier Next Door. Several of these stories have been published, generating excitement for the full collection. Jack anticipates completion in late 2007.

• Matriculation was published in ZYZZYVA.
• "Game Day," was published in Soldier of Fortune magazine under the headline "PSY WAR."
• "Unblocked Ambush," was excerpted by the Chicago Tribune, and run whole in its electronic edition. This piece was read following the screening of a clip from the filmic Operation Homecoming at Powell's Books in Portland, OR.
• Best selling novelist "Robert Dugoni has requested use of an excerpt from Jack's chapter "Night Moves" in his own forthcoming book.

Jack has appeared in two films based around Operation Homecoming:

• Richard Robbins's "Operation Homecoming, which opened at the New York Film Forum in February, 2007. The film has been screened in numerous U.S. cities and is entered in several film festivals. In addition, WETA New York has added this film to a portfolio of works, collectively titled America at a Crossroads, that is due to screen April 15-20 on PBS affiliates nationwide.
• Larry Bridges's "Muse of Fire," scheduled for several film festival screenings during 2007. This film features Kevin Costner in a speaking role, alongside veterans who contributed to the book and film.

Jack has promoted Operation Homecoming on radio talk shows (KING 5 news in Seattle and ABC World News), has appeared at multiple book signings with fellow writers from the Operation Homecoming project, and was a guest at major underwriter Boeing's annual executive conference.

Jack has appeared four times (in St.Louis, at Kansas University, the Seattle Public Library and Powell's Books in Portland, Oregon) during March 2007 in support of Richard Robbins's film, the opening of which resulted in some approving if inaccurate ink on "Road Work" in the New York Times.