Brian Turner has a memoir, My Life as a Foreign Country (with W.W. Norton in the U.S., and
Penguin/Random House in the UK), and five collections of poetry, from Here, Bullet to The Dead
Peasant’s Handbook (all with Alice James Books). He’s the editor of The Kiss and co-edited The
Strangest of Theatres. He lives in Florida with his dog, Dene, the world’s sweetest golden
retriever.
Brian Turner is the author of a memoir, My Life as a Foreign Country, and five collections of
poetry— from Here, Bullet to The Wild Delight of Wild Things. He’s the editor of The Kiss and
co-editor of The Strangest of Theatres. A musician, he’s written and recorded albums with The
Interplanetary Acoustic Team, including 11 11 (Me Smiling) and American Undertow with The
Retro Legion. His poems and essays have been published in The New York Times, The
Guardian, National Geographic, and Harper’s, among other fine journals, and he was featured
in the documentary Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience, nominated for an
Academy Award. His work has been translated into Arabic, Croatian, Dutch, French, German,
Italian, Polish, Russian, and Swedish. A Guggenheim Fellow, he’s received a USA Hillcrest
Fellowship in Literature, the Amy Lowell Traveling Fellowship, the Poets’ Prize, and a Fellowship
from the Lannan Foundation. He lives in Orlando with his dog, Dene, the world’s sweetest
golden retriever.
