Christopher Lyke is a writer and teacher living in Chicago. He served in Afghanistan and Africa as an enlisted infantryman in the U.S. Army. Chris co-founded and edits Line of Advance. He can usually be found running with his dog in Bucktown or catching a game at Floyd’s Pub. Lyke’s work has been featured in such venues as Blaze Vox, Military Experience and the Arts’ literary journal As You Were, Heart of a Veteran, Why We Write from Middle West Press, and he won the short story award in Proud To Be: Writing by American Warriors Vol. 4. He helped edit the anthology Our Best War Stories, also from Middle West Press. Christopher's first book of short stories, The Chicago East India Company, was published by Double Dagger Books. He spends every winter wishing he lived in the south.