THE LONELY SOLDIER MONOLOGUES (WOMEN AT WAR IN IRAQ)
Written by Helen Benedict
Directed by William Electric Black

Helen Benedict is a professor of journalism at Columbia University and author of five novels and five books of nonfiction.

In 2008, she published several articles on women soldiers, one of which won the James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism.

Benedict's essays and book reviews have been published in the New York Times, The Nation, The Washington Post, Salon, The Huffington Post, Ms., In These Times, and elsewhere.

Her novels have received citations for best book of the year from The L.A. Times and the Chicago and New York Public Libraries.

Her new novel, "The Edge of Eden" is to be published in November.