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Mr. Brian  Henry
Mr. Brian Henry
Professor of English and Creative Writing
Profile

Professor Brian Henry has written and translated more than 20 books of poetry. He has published poetry, translation, fiction, creative nonfiction, and criticism in numerous venues, including The New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, The Paris Review, Poetry, the TLS, The Kenyon Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, New England Review, The Georgia Review, American Poetry Review, The Yale Review, and The New Republic. His poetry has been translated into eight languages, and his work has received numerous national and international honors, including the Carole Weinstein Poetry Award, the Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award, the Best Translated Book Award, the Cecil B. Hemley Award, the George Bogin Memorial Award, the Treci Trg Prize (Serbia), a Fulbright Scholarship (Australia), and fellowships from the Howard Foundation, the Slovenian Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Slovenian Ministry of Culture, the Slovenian Writers’ Association, the Lannan Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Education
M.F.A., University of Massachusetts-Amherst
B.A., College of William and Mary
Contact Information
353 Humanities Building
(804) 287-643
(804) 289-8313 (Fax)
Areas of Expertise
Creative Writing
Literary Translation
Contemporary Poetry
Literary Editing and Publishing