Brian Turner

Brian Turner is the author of a memoir, My Life as a Foreign Country (Norton, 2014), and two collections of poetry, Here, Bullet (Alice James, 2005) and Phantom Noise (Alice James, 2010). He’s the editor of The Kiss (Norton, 2018) and coeditor of The Strangest of Theatres (McSweeney’s, 2013). Turner’s work has appeared in the New York Times, the Guardian, National Geographic, Harper’s, and elsewhere. He lives in Orlando, Florida, and directs the MFA program at Sierra Nevada University.