Brian Turner

BRIAN TURNER is the author of a memoir (My Life as a Foreign Country, WW Norton) and two collections of poetry (Here, Bullet and Phantom Noise, both by Alice James Books). He is the editor of The Kiss: Intimacies from Writers (WW Norton) and co-edited The Strangest of Theatres (McSweeney’s/Poetry Foundation). His work has been translated into numerous languages, including Arabic Croatian, Dutch, German, Italian, Polish, Russian, and Swedish. His poetry and essays have been published in The New York Times, National Geographic, Harper’s, Vulture, Poetry Daily, the Virginia Quarterly Review, and many other fine journals. Turner was featured in the documentary film Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience, which was nominated for an Academy award. He is a Guggenheim Fellow and he’s received a USA Fellowship, an NEA in Poetry, The Amy Lowell traveling fellowship, a US-Japan Friendship Commission Fellowship, the Poets’ Prize, and a fellowship from the Lannan Foundation. He’s appeared on NPR, the BBC, Newshour with Jim Lehrer, Here and Now, Weekend America, and others. He is the founding director of the MFA at Sierra Nevada College.