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. Jack’s stories “Purple Hearted” and “Road Work” have been quoted for numerous articles and featured in two documentary films.

• “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. Purple Hearted was featured in the documentary Muse of Fire.
• “Road Work” was nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Facets A Literary Magazine. It was subsequently featured on the New Yorker Online and read at Symphony Space as an NPR Selected Short. “Road Work” formed a sequence in the documentary Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience, which won two Emmys and was nominated for an Academy award.

Jack Lewis is a contributing editor to Motorcyclist magazine where he writes features and the column “Behind Bars.” Links to articles reproduced by Motorcyclist Online are maintained in Jack’s Blog. Select articles can also be found uncut in two books.

• Coming and Going on Bikes: Essaying the Motorcycle presents six fully restored articles and adds a “bonus track.” Available for Kindle at this time, Jack anticipates further e-book availability.
• The classic reminiscence “Riding Home” is included in Lee Klancher’s print book The Devil Can Ride: The World’s Best Motorcycle Writing, available June 2010.

Jack’s current long-form project is a war novel. Several excerpts from the book have already been published, and Jack is exploring distribution models for the complete work.

• “Matriculation” was published in ZYZZYVA, Winter 2005.
• “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 featured at a reading at Powell’s Books in Portland, OR.
• A chapter in progress was published by Crosscut under the
  headline Remembering the Soldiers of 1-25.” and republished in Stryker News.
• Best selling novelist Robert Dugoni consulted with Jack for his book Wrongful Death: A Novel.