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Kathleen T Jabs will be talking about writing fiction based on military experience. She writes from all angles - veteran, spouse, and mother!
​ Kathleen Toomey Jabs serves as the Special Assistant to the President for Military and Veteran Affairs at William & Mary. She has published a novel, Black Wings; several award-winning short stories; and numerous articles in commercial magazines, literary journals and newspapers. Her second novel is out for review.
​ Kathleen graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in one of the first classes to include women, earning a Bachelor of Science in English with minors in Russian and Engineering. Her military career included service in Japan, Hawaii, Panama, the Pentagon, and military installations along the East Coast.​
Concurrent with her Navy work, Kathleen earned a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from George Mason University. Her short stories have won awards and appeared in literary and national publications, including Good Housekeeping; Hayden’s Ferry Review; Other Voices; The Baltimore Review; Collateral; and Proud to Be: Writing by American Warriors; and other journals. Her story, “Safekeeping,” was selected for the Random House Operation Homecoming anthology and the NPR Selected Shorts program. A four-time fellow at the Virginia Center for Creative Arts, she published “Black Wings,” a novel, with Fuze Publishing in 2011. Kathleen lives with her husband in Virginia. They have two adult children.
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June 5, 2024, Luncheon
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11:30 social, 12:00 food, 12:30 Rocco's, 207 Bypass Rd. Williamsburg, VA 23185
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