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Steven Moore

Steven Moore

Steven Moore’s essays have recently appeared or are forthcoming in Entropy, Pinball, and the anthology Why We Write: Craft Essays on Writing War. He works at a nonprofit organization in Corvallis, Oregon.

Mar/Apr 2019

The Case for Zakir

By Steven Moore

Eight years ago, in the Nangarhar province of eastern Afghanistan, Zakir Mohammad went on patrol with a platoon of American soldiers. Twenty-three years old, born and raised outside Kabul, Zakir […]