Brian Turner earned an MFA from the University of Oregon before serving with the US Army as an infantry team leader in Iraq.
He has received an NEA Literature Fellowship in Poetry, the Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Scholarship, and a fellowship from the Lannan Foundation..
He has been featured on National Public Radio, The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer , and the BBC.
Brian Turner earned an MFA from the University of Oregon before serving with the US Army as an infantry team leader in Iraq