Matthew Nasuti is a former U.S. Air Force Captain who served with the 1st Special Operations Wing and later with Air Force Logistics Command. He helped to build the U.S. air base in Comiso, Sicily. He was appointed a Deputy City Attorney for Los Angeles (Criminal Branch) and worked as a contracts manager and then as a consultant to Bechtel Corp. He began to write for The Kabul Press in May of 2009 and has written for The Korea Times and other newspapers, including The Pioneer Valley News in Massachusetts, where he currently resides.