Brian Turner
Brian Turner
is a soldierpoet
whose
debut book
of poems,
Here, Bullet,
won the
2005 Beatrice
Hawley
Award,
the New York Times “Editor’s Choice” selection, the
2006 Pen Center USA “Best in the West” award, and
the 2007 Poets Prize, among others. Turner served
seven years in the US Army, to include one year as
an infantry team leader in Iraq with the 3rd Stryker
Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division. Prior to
that, he was deployed to Bosnia-Herzegovina in 1999-
2000 with the 10th Mountain Division.