Brian Turner (American poet), Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Brian Turner (American poet)

American poet

Date of Birth: 12-Feb-1967

Place of Birth: Visalia, California, United States

Profession: writer, poet, soldier

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Brian Turner (born 1967) 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 is Phantom Noise (Alice James Books, USA; Bloodaxe Books, UK, 2010).