Book cover I designed for That Mad Game: Growing Up in a Warzone, An Anthology of Essays from Around the Globe, published by Cinco Puntos Press. That Mad Game won a 2013 Silver ADDY® Award for its design from the Advertising Federation of El Paso. Seventeen writers contribute essays about how they became adults in times of war. Essays focus on modern history but take no sides. Vietnam from both sides. Bosnia. The Gulf War. Rwanda. Juárez. El Salvador. The list goes on and on. There are no winners, just the survivors left behind. Picking up the pieces. Essays in the anthology are: A Talib in Love by Qais Akbar Omar / AFGHANISTAN No Longer Young by Phillip Cole Manor / VIETNAM Holland 1944-45 by Elisabeth Breslav / THE NETHERLANDS Across the River by Nikolina Kulidžan / BOSNIA Hand-Me-Down War Stories by Jerry Mathes / U.S. Left Behind in El Salvador by René Colato Laínez / EL SALVADOR
Ways of the Khmer Rouge by Peauladd Huy / CAMBODIA My War and His War by Alia Yunis / LEBANON, PALESTINE, U.S. Our America by Marnie Mueller / JAPANESE INTERNMENT CAMPS, U.S. Exiled to Gansu Province by Xiaomei Lucas as told to Becky Powers / CHINA Brass Shells by Aria Minu-Sepehr / IRAN Half a Continent, Step by Step by Andie Miller / RWANDA, DRC, SOUTH AFRICA Statistical Life by David Yost / BURMA, THAILAND The Light of Gandhi's Lamp by Hilary Kromberg Inglis / SOUTH AFRICA From Fear to Hope: Raising Our Children in the World's Most Violent City by Fito Avitia / JUAREZ, MEXICO A Separate Escape: The Chin of Burma & the Unaccompanied Refugee Minor Program by Rebecca Henderson / BURMA, MALAYSIA, U.S. Symphony No.1 (In Memoriam, Dresden, 1945) by David Griffith / U.S., IRAQ, GERMANY