Alan Cockrell, a retired commercial airline pilot, previously worked as a certified petroleum geologist in the Gulf Coast oil industry for twelve years. He is author of the nonfiction book Tail of the Storm: Flying Missions in the First Gulf War and a novel, The Restless Earth. His essays and stories have appeared in AOPA Pilot, Airline Pilot, Hemispheres, On Guard, Aviation History, and the Huntsville Times.
