Brian Turner (American poet)
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"Brian Turner" is also the name of a New Zealand poet.
Brian Turner is an American poet and the winner of the 2005 Beatrice Hawley Award for poetry.
From Fresno, California, Turner has seen his poems published in Poetry Daily, Atlanta Review, Crab Orchard Review, Georgia Review, Rattle, and ZYZZYVA. His poems have also appeared in the Voices in Wartime anthology. He received the Beatrice Hawley Award for his debut collection, Here, Bullet, published by Alice James Books.
Turner is an MFA graduate of the University of Oregon and a U.S. Army veteran. He was an infantry team leader for a year in Iraq beginning November 2003, with the 3rd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division. In 1999 and 2000 he was with the 10th Mountain Division, deployed in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Before his military service, Turner lived in South Korea for a year.
His book of war poems, Here, Bullet, was published in paperback by Alice James Books in 2005. (ISBN-10: 1882295552 ISBN-13: 978-1882295555)
[edit] Honors and awards
- 2005: Beatrice Hawley Award
- 2006: Maine Literary Award in Poetry
- 2006: Northern California Book Award in Poetry
- 2006: Sheila Margaret Motten Award from the New England Poetry Club
- 2006: PEN Center USA "Best in the West" Literary Award in Poetry
- 2006: Lannan Literary Fellowship
[edit] Print resource
- Goodyear, Dana. "Ink: War Poet" (Talk of the Town). The New Yorker. Nov. 14, 2005. pg. 39.
