Brian Henry

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

Life
Henry completed a Bachelor of ArtsBA from the College of William and Mary and an M.F.A. from the MFA Program for Poets & Writers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Henry has taught at Plymouth State College and the University of Georgia. He currently teaches creative writing and literature at the University of Richmond.

Henry 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 (Harvard University Press).

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. Henry's translation of Book of Things won the 2011 Best Translated Book Award.

Recognition

 * Best Translated Book Award, Book of Things, 2011
 * Howard Foundation grant for Literary Translation, 2011
 * National Endowment for the Arts Translation Grant, 2010
 * Treci Trg Prize, Serbia, 2009
 * Cecil B. Hemeley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America, 2008
 * Alice Fay di Castagnola Award from the Poetry Society of America for Quarantine, 2003
 * Carole Weinstein Poetry Prize, 2006
 * George Bogin Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America, 2001
 * Finalist for the Forward Prize in England for Astronaut, 2000
 * Fulbright Scholarship to Australia, 1997

Publications

 * Astronaut. Pittsburgh, PA: Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2002/ Arc Publications, 2000.
 * American Incident. Cromer, UK: Salt Publishing, 2002.
 * Graft Kalamazoo, MI: New Issues Press/Arc Publications, 2003,
 * In the Unlikely Event of a Water. Equipage, 2007.
 * The Stripping Point. Counterpath Press, 2007.
 *  Quarantine. Ahsahta Press, 2006/ Arc Publications, 2009.
 * Wings Without Birds. Cromer, UK: Salt Publishing, 2010.
 * Doppelganger. Talisman House, 2011.
 * Lessness. Ahsahta Press, 2011.

Edited

 * On James Tate (ed.) (University of Michigan Press, 2004.
 * The Verse Book of Interviews (co-ed.) (Verse Press, 2005.