Elaine Little is a writer and U.S. Army Veteran who deployed to Cuba, Bosnia, and Afghanistan. Her short stories and essays have been published in magazines and books, including “Tupelo Quarterly,” “The Bryant Literary Review,” ”37th Parallel,” and the anthology, “Powder: Writing by Women in the Ranks from Vietnam to Iraq.” She won the Celia Baker Scholarship to the Longleaf Writer’s Conference in 2018. She was an Austin Screenwriting Festival second rounder in 2019 and 2020, and participated in the Writers Guild of America West, WGA, Veterans Writing Workshop in 2015. Elaine has also worked as a production assistant and assistant director on several short films, and as a contributor to the Rivendell theater production of “Women at War.” She is currently collaborating with a composer to write a short musical for the upcoming NewMusicalsInc (NMI) web series, “How Proudly We Hail.”