Teresa Fazio

Teresa Fazio is a former Marine Corps officer who served as a communications officer in Iraq. She later wrote the memoir Fidelis, published by Potomac Books in 2020, about her service and its aftermath. Her essays and fiction have appeared in The New York Times, Rolling Stone, The War Horse, and other outlets. She has received the Consequence Magazine Fiction Prize and a fellowship at Yaddo. Her academic background includes a physics degree from MIT and a Ph.D. in materials science from Columbia University. She trained in writing at the Bennington Writing Seminars.