"Everyone says 'Get help' as if it were that simple . . ."
Lily Burana, author of I Love a Man in Uniform, tells the story of falling in love with a military man and surviving PTSD together.
Lily Burana is a self-described punk rock girl turned writer and editor. Her work as appeared in
The Washington Post, GQ, The New York Times, Self, Glamour, Entertainment Weekly, Details, The Village Voice, The New York Observer, and many, many more notable publications. She is also the author of three books,
Strip City, the novel
Try, and her wildly entertaining yet poignant memoir of her life as a military spouse,
I Love a Man in Uniform.
In her interview with Not Alone, Lily recounts the same story: that of falling in love with and marrying a military man, living through is deployment, and surviving Post Traumatic Stress Disorder on both sides of their marriage. While Lily is undoubtedly unlike anyone else you'll meet on post, her story is one that any military wife will know and understand all too well.
In addition to writing, Lily has also started the nonprofit Operation Bombshell, the world's only burlesque school for military lives. Operation Bombshell travels to military installations all over the US, teaching her "Bombshell in an Hour" class. For more information on how to bring her to your base, visit
www.lilyburana.com.
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