Jeff Lee Manthos | Author

Publishing Credits

Perceptions, MHCC Magazine of the Arts, February 2009
The Warrior's Song

The Deadly Writer's Patrol, issue 7, 2009 (Final Issue)
Poems: Dreamscape, Questions Not to Ask

The Deadly Writer's Patrol, issue 6, 2008
Excerpt from Bluejackets (in progress): Marcy vs Mr. Perfect

The Deadly Writer's Patrol, issue 5, 2007
Poem Fearing Sleep

Steel Beach: My Life As a Naval Aircrewman 1972 - 1976
Inkwater Press (336 pages) Paperback , April 2007
# ISBN-10: 1592992617
# ISBN-13: 978-1592992614

The Deadly Writer's Patrol, Issue 4, 2007
Excerpt from Steel Beach: Bear Country
poem: A Cold Day in Hue

The Deadly Writer's Patrol, Issue 3, 2007
short fiction Elephant Dreams, poem Zippos
(photo courtesy: typewriter.rydia[DOT]net/keyboard.htm)

Salem Monthly, November 2004
poem nineteen

Fort Collins Coloradoan, Life section, September 16, 2004
short memoir

Helicopter Monthly Online Magazine August 2004
short memoir Premonition
Viet Nam War Generation Journal, vol 2, no. 3 & 4, April 2003
A Small Madness at Sea
Romantic Settings
Malcolm's T-shirt
Elephant Dreams

Incoming! by Vietnam veterans, Hawks' Nest Publishing, vol V
Routine Medevac
The Wind
Time Warp

Incoming! by Vietnam veterans, Hawks' Nest Publishing, vol IV
Suspension

Freedom Isn't Free, edited by Kim Wilson (pending publication)
1972
My Desert Flower

The Oregonian Op-ed/Forum page
May 1997, November 1997, June 1998.

Current News

January 2010

Jeff has been asked to be the guest speaker at a cancer survivor celebration in Modesto, California, this summer June 15th.

November 2009

Jeff is the featured cancer survivor in the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society's Horizons newsletter, Volume 6, Number 3. Contact Jeff for a free print copy, a limited number are available.

March 2009

Jeff's interview about his Sea King helicopter adventures with aviation historian and journalist Tamas Szorad has been published in the March, 2009 issue of the European aviation periodical Aeromagazin of Budapest, Hungary.

February 2009

Jeff's short story The Warrior's Song was published in Perceptions, Mt Hood Community College's magazine of the arts this spring. (http://www.mhcc.edu/pages/1516.asp)

May 2008

Steel Beach has been selected by a Florida High School history class as literature of the Vietnam War era.

April 2008

Latest manuscript- Planet Chemo completed and submitted to agents and publishers.

December 2, 2007

Finalist in the Oregon Book Awards for creative nonfiction. Literary Arts

April 2007

Published release of Steel Beach
(Inkwater Press ).

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