Tenley Lozano

Tenley Lozano is a writer, engineer, and former United States Coast Guard Dive Officer known for her work in the veteran web series Permission to Speak Freely. Her writing has appeared on the website The War Horse, the literary journal O-Dark Thirty, and in the anthology Incoming: Veteran Writers on Returning Home. She won Crab Orchard Review's 2017 John Guyon Literary Nonfiction prize for an essay about PTSD and finding healing through backpacking with her dog. Tenley graduated from Sierra Nevada College in 2016 with an MFA in Creative Writing (Nonfiction) and she lives in San Diego, California.