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Ulf Pike

Ulf Pike is a fifth-generation Montanan and combat veteran. After his service in the Iraq War, he read books and wrote about them at Montana State University while fighting wildfires with the Forest Service in the summers. For the past six seasons, Ulf has staffed a fire lookout tower in Idaho with his dog Zuul. In search of a more remote duty station, he moved to Black Mountain Lookout for the 2023 fire season. He is currently working on his second book. His work has been twice nominated for the national Pushcart Prize, appearing in The Wrath Bearing Tree, SmokeLong Quarterly, 0-Dark-Thirty, and recently in Columbia University’s The Line Literary Review.

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Jesse Albrecht LEFT: "Make A Wish," 2021; MIDDLE: "Front Toward Enemy," 2021; RIGHT: "Jalapeno MRE Cheese N' Grandma Sissy's Willow Ware," 2022.
The Task
Through the lens of Ulf's experience as a combat veteran and at the top of a mountain, he illustrates how warfare becomes a mirror of our everyday lives. He offers a unique perspective on the convergence of trauma and creativity. Understanding why Ulf's writing has value in a pottery publication is more about my human experience and the way I think as a combat veteran. Communicating what it was like and what life is like now is incredibly hard and enigmatic.
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