Brian Henry is the author of eight books of poetry: Astronaut (short-listed for the Forward Prize), American Incident, Graft, Quarantine (winner of the Alice Fay di Castagnola Award), The Stripping Point, Wings Without Birds, Lessness, and Doppelgänger. His work has been translated into Croatian, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, and Slovenian, and his books have been translated into Slovenian and Serbian. He has co-edited Verse magazine since 1995. His translation of Tomaž Šalamun's Woods and Chalices appeared from Harcourt in 2008, and his translation of Ales Šteger's The Book of Things appeared from BOA Editions in 2010 and won the 2011 Best Translated Book Award.