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Brian Turner

Brian Turner is the author of the memoir My Life as a Foreign Country and the poetry collections Here, Bullet and Phantom Noise. He directs the low-residency MFA at Sierra Nevada College. The Kiss was conceived with his late wife, the acclaimed poet Ilyse Kusnetz, to whom it is dedicated. It was developed from a series he curated for Guernica.

Brian Turner

Brian Turner is the author of the memoir My Life as a Foreign Country and the poetry collections Here, Bullet and Phantom Noise. He directs the low-residency MFA at Sierra Nevada College. The Kiss was conceived with his late wife, the acclaimed poet Ilyse Kusnetz, to whom it is dedicated. It was developed from a series he curated for Guernica.

Books by Brian Turner

  • The Kiss: Intimacies from Writers

    Brian Turner

    Hardback, 2018

    A deliciously diverse anthology of essays, stories, poems and graphic memoirs, exploring the deeply human act of kissing.
  • The Kiss: Intimacies from Writers

    Brian Turner

    Paperback, 2019

    A deliciously diverse anthology of essays, stories, poems and graphic memoirs, exploring the deeply human act of kissing.
  • My Life as a Foreign Country: A Memoir

    Brian Turner

    Paperback, 2015

    "Brilliant and beautiful. It surely ranks with the best war memoirs I’ve ever encountered." —Tim O’Brien, author ofThe Things They Carried
  • The Kiss: Intimacies from Writers

    Brian Turner

    E Book, 2018

    A deliciously diverse anthology of essays, stories, poems and graphic memoirs, exploring the deeply human act of kissing.