Brian Henry


Brian Henry is an American poet, translator, editor, and literary critic. He lives in Richmond, Virginia.

Biography

Henry completed a BA at the College of William and Mary and an MFA Program for Poets & Writers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
He has published poetry in magazines including American Poetry Review, The Paris Review, Boston Review and Virginia Quarterly Review and his work has been translated into Russian, Croatian, Serbian, and Slovenian. Henry's poetry criticism has appeared in the publications including New York Times Book Review, 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.
Henry has translated Woods and Chalices by the Slovenian poet Tomaž Šalamun and The Book of Things by the Slovenian poet Aleš Šteger. His translation of Book of Things won the 2011 Best Translated Book Award.
Henry has taught at Plymouth State College and the University of Georgia. He currently teaches creative writing and literature at the University of Richmond.

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