Brian Turner is the author of Here, Bullet (Alice James Books, 2005). He has recently completed a second collection (Talk the Guns), which will be available from Alice James Books in early 2010. His work has appeared in The Georgia Review, The Virginia Quarterly Review, Poetry Daily, and the Crab Orchard Review, among other venues. He has received an NEA Fellowship in Poetry and a Fellowship from the Lannan Foundation. He currently lives in California and is working on his third collection of poetry.