![]() ![]() ![]() His recent memoir, “My Life as a Foreign Country,” has been called, “achingly, disturbingly, shockingly beautiful.”īenjamin Busch, author of “Dust to Dust,” calls “My Life as a Foreign Country” “a brilliant fever dream of war’s surreality, its lastingness, its place in families and in the fate of nations.” He adds, “Each sentence has been carefully measured, weighed with loss and vitality, the hard-earned language of a survivor who has seen the world destroyed and written it back to life. Turner has been awarded a United States Artists Fellowship, an NEA Fellowship, a Lannan Foundation Fellowship and others. Turner’s work has been published in National Geographic, The New York Times, Poetry Daily, Harper’s Magazine and other journals. He is the author of two poetry collections, “Phantom Noise” and “Here, Bullet,” which won the 2005 Beatrice Hawley Award, the New York Times “Editor’s Choice” selection, the 2006 PEN Center USA “Best in the West” award, the 2007 Poets Prize and others. All events are free and open to the public. The series takes place on Wednesdays in Gifford Auditorium, starting with a Q&A at 3:45 p.m., followed by an author reading at 5:30 p.m. Program in Creative Writing, in conjunction with the “Living Writers” undergraduate course (ETS 107). The series, which brings 12-14 prominent writers to campus each year, is presented by the M.F.A. ![]()
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