Van Vaneendenburg, 46th Annual ODU Literary Festival

Van Vaneendenburg served as an analyst during her 30-plus-year naval career, retiring as a captain, and holds a master’s from the University of Southern California. She is the inaugural S.C.R.Y. Fellow in Literature (Scry Creative Residencies; scrymagazine.com) and a National Endowment for the Arts Military Veteran Fellow at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. A graduate of the ODU MFA program, Van’s work has appeared in Navy Blues, a collection of personal essays pushing against individual and bureaucratic identities of the post-Vietnam Navy, and Sisters in Arms: Lessons We’ve Learned (2023)