Brian Henry

Brian Henry is an American poet, translator, editor, and literary critic.¹²

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.¹³

He has published poetry in magazines including The American Poetry Review,⁴ The Paris Review,⁵ the Boston Review,⁶ and the Virginia Quarterly Review,⁷ and his work has been translated into Russian, Croatian, Serbian, and Slovenian.² Henry's poetry criticism has appeared in the publications including The New York Times Book Review,⁸ The Times Literary Supplement,⁹ The Kenyon Review,¹⁰ The Georgia Review,¹¹ and The Yale Review.¹² His essays have been reprinted in such books as Imagining Australia (Harvard University Press).¹³

In 2000, he and Matthew Zapruder co-founded Verse Press,¹⁴ which later became Wave Books in 2005.¹⁵

Henry has translated Woods and Chalices (Harcourt, 2008) by the Slovenian poet Tomaž Šalamun¹⁶ and The Book of Things (BOA Editions, 2010) by the Slovenian poet Aleš Šteger.¹⁷ His translation of The Book of Things won the 2011 Best Translated Book Award.¹⁸ 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 University¹⁹ and the University of Georgia.²⁰¹⁴ He teaches creative writing and English at the University of Richmond.²¹ He lives in Richmond, Virginia.²²

• Astronaut (Arc Publications, 2000, ISBN 1-900072-33-5)²³¹⁴
• American Incident (Salt Publishing, 2002, ISBN 978-1876857523)²⁴¹⁴
• Graft (Arc Publications, 2002, ISBN 978-1900072731)¹⁴
• On James Tate (editor, University of Michigan Press, 2004, ISBN 9780472113767)²⁵¹⁴
• The Verse Book of Interviews (co-editor with Andrew Zawacki, Verse Press, 2005, ISBN 0974635359)
• Quarantine (Ahsahta Press, 2006, ISBN 978-0916272883)²⁶
• The Stripping Point (Counterpath Press, 2007, ISBN 9781933996011)²⁷
• In the Unlikely Event of a Water (Equipage, 2007, ISBN 9781900968171)
• Wings Without Birds (Salt Publishing, 2010, ISBN 978-1844717484)²⁸
• Lessness (Ahsahta Press, 2011, ISBN 978-1934103203)²⁹
• Doppelganger (Talisman House, 2011, ISBN 978-1-58498-084-1)³⁰
• Brother No One (Salt Publishing, 2013, ISBN 9781844719181)
• Static & Snow (Black Ocean Press, 2015, ISBN 978-1-939568-12-0)³¹

• Fulbright Scholarship, 1997³²
• Finalist, Forward Prize for Best First Collection, Astronaut, 2000³³
• George Bogin Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America, 2001³⁴
• Alice Fay di Castagnola Award from the Poetry Society of America, Quarantine, 2003³⁵
• Carole Weinstein Poetry Prize, 2006³⁶
• Cecil Hemley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America, "Moth Ark", 2008³⁷
• Nagrade Treći Trg, 2009³⁸
• Best Translated Book Award, Book of Things, 2011¹⁸
• National Endowment for the Arts Translation Fellowship, 2020³⁹