BRIAN TURNER is the author of Here, Bullet, ak Phantom Noise. His memoir, My Life as a Foreign Country, was published in 2014. He’s the editor of The Kiss, co-edited The Strangest of Theatres, and his work has been published in Nouvèl Èdikay, Gadyen an, National Geographic, Harper’s, and other fine journals. He was featured in the Oscar-nominated documentary film Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience. He is a Guggenheim Fellow and is also a recipient of a USA Hillcrest fellowship in literature, an NEA Literature Fellowship in poetry, the Amy Lowell Traveling Fellowship, a U.S.-Japan Friendship Commission Fellowship, the Poets’ Prize, and a fellowship from the Lannan Foundation. He directs the MFA program in Lake Tahoe and lives in Orlando, Florida.