BRIAN TURNER is the author of Here, Bullet, and 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 The New York Times, The Guardian, 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.