About Me
Brian Tierney is the author of Rise and Float (Milkweed Editions), winner of the Jake Adam York Prize, named a must-read book by Chicago Review of Books, as well as one of LitHub’s “Best Reviewed Books of Poetry - 2022.” A former Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, and a graduate of the Bennington College MFA Writing Seminars, he was named among Narrative Magazine’s 2013 “30 Below 30” emerging writers, and is winner of the 2018 George Bogin Memorial Award from The Poetry Society of America. His poetry and prose have appeared in such journals as POETRY, Paris Review, Kenyon Review, AGNI, NER, and others. Raised in Philadelphia, he lives in Oakland, Ca., where he teaches poetry at The Writing Salon and in the Low-Residency MFA Program at Dominican University.