American poet, essayist, and teacher Brian Turner was born in 1967. When he earned the 2005 Beatrice Hawley Award for his debut collection, Here, Bullet, it was the first of many awards and accolades for this collection of poems on his time as a soldier in the Iraq War (Alice James Books).
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Since then, he has won prizes like the NEA Literature Fellowship in Poetry, the Lannan Literary Fellowship, and the Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Scholarship. His second collection, Phantom Noise, is a finalist for the 2010 T.S. Eliot Prize (Alice James Books, USA; Bloodaxe Books, UK, 2010).
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Which War Did Brian Turner Fight In?
Turner, a former US Army soldier, spent a year as an infantry squad leader in the Iraq War starting in November 2003 with the 3rd Stryker Brigade Combat Unit, 2nd Infantry Division. In Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1999 and 2000, he deployed with the 10th Mountain Division.
Who Worked For Brian Turner?
Gary Rhodes and Shaun Hill were two of the chefs who worked with Brian Turner (chef) at the Capital. Turner launched Turner’s in 1986 in London’s Knightsbridge neighborhood’s Walton Street. Up until 2001, when it was sold, he operated this. At the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Birmingham’s NEC, Brian Turner’s Restaurant debuted in February 2002. In April 2003, he introduced Brian Turner Mayfair at the Millennium Hotel in London.
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