Jason Prokowiew received the 2023 PEN America/Jean Stein Grant for Literary Oral History for his braided memoir "War Boys." His writing has appeared in Salon, Roxane Gay’s Emerging Writer Series “The Audacity,” WBUR's Cognoscenti, on WORLD Channel’s Stories from the Stage, and is forthcoming in The Guardian and North American Review. He runs his own law office dedicated to disability advocacy and lives on a lake in Massachusetts with his husband Dave and their greyhound Champ.