Brian Turner has five collections of poetry, from Here, Bullet to The Dead Peasant’s Handbook (Alice James Books), and a memoir—My Life as a Foreign Country (W.W. Norton & Co.). He’s the editor of The Kiss and co-edited The Strangest of Theatres. His poems and essays have been published in The New York Times, The Guardian, National Geographic, and Harper’s, among other fine journals, and he was featured in the documentary Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience, nominated for an Academy Award.