Brian Turner

Brian Turner earned an MFA from the University of
Oregon
and lived abroad in South Korea for a year before serving
for seven
years in the US Army. He was an infantry team leader for a
year in Iraq
beginning in November 2003 with the 3rd Stryker Brigade
Combat Team,
2nd Infantry Division. Prior to that, he was deployed to
Bosnia-Herzegovina in 1999 with the 10th Mountain Division.
His poetry
has been published in Poetry Daily, The Georgia
Review, and other journals, and in the Voices in
Wartime Anthology published in conjunction with the
feature-length documentary film of the same name.