Dr. Jesse Goolsby is a retired US Air Force Colonel with experience in logistics, education, diplomacy, and cyber. He is the author of the novel I’d Walk with My Friends If I Could Find Them (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) and the collection Acceleration Hours (University of Nevada Press). He is the recipient of the John Gardner Memorial Award in Fiction and the Richard Bausch Short Story Prize, and fellowships from the Hambidge Center for Creative Arts and Sciences and the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. 

Goolsby earned an English degree from the United States Air Force Academy, a Master's degree in English from the University of Tennessee, and a PhD in English and Creative Writing from Florida State University. He currently works as a national defense strategist and policy advisor.