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Brian Turner (American poet)
American poet
For other people named Brian Turner, see Brian Turner (disambiguation).
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).
Early life and education
Turner was born in Visalia, California, and raised in Fresno and then Madera County through high school and attended Fresno City College before transferring to Fresno State for his BA and MA.
He received his MFA from the University of Oregon.
