Brian Turner
Brian Turner earned an MFA from the University of Oregon and lived abroad in South Korea for a year before serving in the US Army. He was an infantry team leader for a year in Iraq beginning November 2003, with the 3rd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division. Prior to that, he was deployed to Bosnia-Herzegovina in 1999-2000 with the 10th Mountain Division. His poetry has been published in
Poetry Daily,
The Georgia Review,
Crab Orchard Review,
Rattle,
ZYZZYVA,
Atlanta Review, and many others. Some of these poems also appear in the
Voices in Wartime Anthology published in conjunction with the feature-length documentary film of the same name. His debut collection,
Here, Bullet, won the 2005 Beatrice Hawley Award and was published by Alice James Books in November, 2005. Since its publication,
Here, Bullet has won numerous awards including the Maine Literary Award in Poetry, the Northern California Book Award in Poetry, the 2006 PEN Center USA "Best in the West" Literary Award in Poetry, the 2006 Sheila Margaret Motton Award from the New England Poetry Club, the 2007 Poets' Prize. Turner is also the recipient of a 2006 Lannan Literary Fellowship and a 2007 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship in Poetry.
Read a "Talk of the Town" article about Brian Turner by Dana Goodyear from the November 14, 2005 New Yorker: "War Poet"
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Posted on April 18, 2005 10:11 PM
