Craig Werner is a member of the faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where he teaches Vietnam-related classes in the Departments of English and Afro-American Studies and the Integrated Liberal Studies program,which offers the class “The Vietnam Era:Music,Media and Mayhem.” A native of Colorado Springs,he played with the rock and roll band Armageddon which performed frequently for soldiers stationed at Fort Carson. A member of the Nominating Committee of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame,he is the author of numerous books including Up Around the Bend:An Oral History of Creedence Clearwater Revival;A Change Is Gonna Come:Music,Race &the Soul of America;and Higher Ground:Aretha Franklin,Stevie Wonder,Curtis Mayfield and the Rise &Fall of American Soul. After joining the Deadly Writers Patrol in 2004,he began work on a novel,This Land,five chapters of which have been published in The Deadly Writers Patrol magazine.