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Janet Burroway: Losing Tim

Award-winning author Janet Burroway explores the loss of her son, a military contractor, to suicide in this program sponsored by Think Piece Publishing.

Janet Burroway's son Tim was a U.S. Army captain with Ranger and Airborne training. He left the Army to continue serving his country as a private contractor in Iraq, doing demining work with a private company. Two months after quitting his job and returning home, he killed himself.

In Losing Tim, a memoir published by Think Piece Publishing, Burroway brings readers a candid and personal story of a family's grieving. 

“To me, the pain recalls Homer’s Iliad, in which, as James Tatum puts it in The Mourner’s Song, ‘the beauty [of the poetry] is in the killing.’” -Jonathan Shay, author of Achilles in Vietnam

According to a study published by the Rand Corporation in December 2013, private contractors who worked in Iraq, Afghanistan or other conflict environments over the past two years report suffering from PTSD and depression more often than military personnel who served in recent conflicts. Despite their troubles, relatively few get help either before or after deployment. An estimated 108,000 private contractors are currently serving in Afghanistan.

Janet Burroway is the author of eight novels and numerous plays, poems, essays, texts for dance, and children’s books. Her novel Raw Silk was runner-up for the National Book Award in 1977. Her Writing Fiction: A Guide to Narrative Craft, now in its ninth edition, is the most widely used creative writing text in America, and her multi-genre Imaginative Writing is out in a fourth edition. She is the Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor Emerita at the Florida State University. 

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