Brian Turner

Brian Turner is the author of the several collections of poetry including Here, Bullet and The Wild Delight of Wild Things and the memoir My Life as a Foreign Country, and is the editor of The Kiss and co-editor of The Strangest of Theatres anthologies. A musician, he has also written and recorded several albums with The Interplanetary Acoustic Team, including 11 11 (Me Smiling) and The Retro Legion's American Undertow. His poems and essays have been published in the New York Times, the Guardian, National Geographic, Harper’s, among other journals. He was featured in the documentary film Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience, which was nominated for an Academy Award. A Guggenheim Fellow, he has received a USA Hillcrest Fellowship in Literature, the Amy Lowell Traveling Fellowship, the Poets’ Prize, and a Fellowship from Lannan Foundation. He lives in Orlando, Florida.