After Sweden enacted gender-neutral conscription in early 2018, Teresa Fazio traveled there to ask how it works and what the U.S. can learn.
Teresa Fazio
Teresa Fazio is a former Marine Corps communications officer. Her writing has been published in The New York Times, Rolling Stone, Task and Purpose, Vassar Quarterly, Consequence Magazine, Penthouse, and the anthologies “Retire the Colors” and “The Road Ahead.” Her awards include the Consequence Magazine Fiction Prize, Words After War Submission Contest, and a fellowship at Yaddo. Her unpublished memoir, “Unbecoming,” was a finalist for the 2015 Autumn House Nonfiction Contest.
Fazio holds a Ph.D. in materials science from Columbia University and a bachelor’s in physics from MIT, and she is an MFA candidate at the Bennington Writing Seminars. She lives in New York City. She is a 2017 and 2018 War Horse fellow.
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Review: “Fight Like a Girl” By Kate Germano With Kelly Kennedy
Teresa Fazio reviews Kate Germano’s new memoir, in which the retired lieutenant colonel makes the case for the reforms she made at Parris Island.
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A Marine Officer Visits a Helicopter Crash Site. Nepal Tried to Claim Her Too.
Two years after a helicopter carrying Marines crashed in the Nepali mountains, Marine veteran Teresa Fazio encountered the wilderness that had claimed them.
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Circumstances, Misfortunes or Fortunes
Teresa Fazio hid her beer beneath a tissue – polite women didn’t drink. She received prasad, like communion, and searched for salvation amidst memories of Iraq.
