Brian Henry

Brian Henry is an American poet, translator, editor, and literary critic.

Biography Henry completed a B.A. at the College of William & Mary and an MFA at the University of Massachusetts Amherst College of Humanities and Fine Arts.

He has published poetry in magazines including The American Poetry Review, The Paris Review, the Boston Review, and the Virginia Quarterly Review, and his work has been translated into Russian, Croatian, Serbian, and Slovenian. The Times Literary Supplement, The Kenyon Review, The Georgia Review, and The Yale Review. His essays have been reprinted in such books as Imagining Australia (Harvard University Press).

In 2000, he and Matthew Zapruder co-founded Verse Press, which later became Wave Books in 2005.

Henry has translated Woods and Chalices (Harcourt, 2008) by the Slovenian poet Tomaž Šalamun and The Book of Things (BOA Editions, 2010) by the Slovenian poet Aleš Šteger. His translation of The Book of Things won the 2011 Best Translated Book Award. In 2019 he was a contributor to A New Divan: A Lyrical Dialogue between East and West (Gingko Library).

Henry has taught at Plymouth State University and the University of Georgia. He lives in Richmond, Virginia.

Books Astronaut (Arc Publications, 2000, ISBN 1-900072-33-5) The Stripping Point (Counterpath Press, 2007, ISBN 9781933996011) In the Unlikely Event of a Water (Equipage, 2007, ISBN 9781900968171) Wings Without Birds (Salt Publishing, 2010, ISBN 978-1844717484) Lessness (Ahsahta Press, 2011, ISBN 978-1934103203) Doppelganger (Talisman House, 2011, ISBN 978-1-58498-084-1) Brother No One (Salt Publishing, 2013, ISBN 9781844719181) Static & Snow (Black Ocean Press, 2015, ISBN 978-1-939568-12-0)

Honors Fulbright Scholarship, 1997 Finalist, Forward Prize for Best First Collection, Astronaut, 2000 George Bogin Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America, 2001 Alice Fay di Castagnola Award from the Poetry Society of America, Quarantine, 2003 Carole Weinstein Poetry Prize, 2006 Cecil Hemley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America, "Moth Ark", 2008 Nagrade Treći Trg, 2009 Best Translated Book Award, Book of Things, 2011