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, and co-edited The Strangest of Theatres. His work has been published in The New York Times, The Guardian, National Geographic, Harper’s, and other fine journals. Turner was featured in the documentary film Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience, nominated for an Academy Award. He is a Guggenheim Fellow, and he’s received a USA Hillcrest Fellowship in Literature, an NEA Literature Fellowship in Poetry, the Amy Lowell Traveling Fellowship, a US-Japan Friendship Commission Fellowship, the Poets’ Prize, and a Fellowship from the Lannan Foundation. He lives in Orlando with Dene, the world's sweetest golden retriever.

“The lovely laments in Brian Turner's fourth collection, The Goodbye World Poem—the follow-up to The Wild Delight of Wild Things—dwell in the aftermath of loss and cultivate compensatory appreciation for the natural world. The death of his wife in 2016 is not the only bereavement in Turner's recent roster: "Vigil" is about his father's last moments, and "The Dead Guys" is an elegy for a close friend. "Dying is so intimate," Turner writes in the opening poem. Even David Bowie's passing felt like a personal affront, as well as a reminder of mortality. …The long title piece, which closes the collection, repeats many phrases from earlier poems—a pleasing way of drawing the book's themes together. The worst suffering is over, the tone suggests, and in ‘this quiet place I'm learning is the rest of my life.’ And his strategy is to ‘fall in love with the small things.’”
—Rebecca Foster, Shelf Awareness Starred Review