Brian Turner (American poet)

For other people named Brian Turner, see Brian Turner (disambiguation).
Brian Turner
Born1967 (age 56–57)
Visalia, California
NationalityAmerican
Alma materFresno State;
University of Oregon
GenrePoetry
Notable awardsBeatrice Hawley Award
SpouseIlyse Kusnetz[1] (m.2010; died 2016)

Brian Turner (born 1967)[2] is an American poet, essayist, and professor. 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 Travelling Scholarship. His second collection, shortlisted for the 2010 T.S. Eliot Prize[3] is Phantom Noise (Alice James Books, USA; Bloodaxe Books, UK, 2010).

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  2. ^ "LC Catalog - Legacy Catalog Retired". catalog.loc.gov.
  3. ^ "Poetry Book Society > T.S. Eliot Prize 2010 Shortlist". Archived from the original on February 2, 2011.