M.C. Armstrong

M.C. Armstrong is an award-winning writer of both fiction and non-fiction. The Brooklyn Rail named his 2020 memoir, The Mysteries of Haditha (Potomac Books, 2020), one of the best books of the year. An account of his time as an embedded journalist with the Navy SEALS in Al Anbar Province, Iraq, The Mysteries of Haditha emerged from Armstrong’s regularly filed stories for his hometown newspaper, The Winchester (VA) Star, over the course of 2008. "Veteran Activism and the Global War on Terror," his doctoral dissertation (University of North Carolina-Greensboro, 2021), which examines post-9/11 veteran-activists, was published by Bloomsbury in 2024. Armstrong is also the author of the YA thriller, American Delphi, and the forthcoming investigative memoir, Murder Most Foul, which is a study of Lyndon Johnson's role in the assassination of John F. Kennedy. When he’s not teaching English literature or writing, Armstrong can be found performing with the rock band, Viva la Muerte, as its guitarist and lead singer-songwriter. M.C. can be reached at matty8a@gmail.com.