Brian Turner is an American poet, essayist and professor. He is the author of: My Life as a Foreign Country: A Memoir and two collections of poetry: Here, Bullet and Phantom Noise. He’s the editor of The Kiss and co-edited The Strangest of Theatres. He’s published in The New York Times, The Guardian, National Geographic, Harper’s, and other fine journals. He won the 2005 Beatrice Hawley Award for his debut collection, Here, Bullet (Alice James Books) the first of many awards and honors received for this collection of poems about his experience as a soldier in the Iraq War. His honors since include a Lannan Literary Fellowship and NEA Literature Fellowship in Poetry and the Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Scholarship. His second collection, shortlisted for the 2010 T.S. Eliot Prize is Phantom Noise (Alice James Books, USA; Bloodaxe Books, UK, 2010), 2012 JUSFC Japan-US Friendship Commission Fellowship and 2016 Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry. He lives in Orlando, Florida, with the world’s sweetest golden retriever, Dene.
