The most recent of Gaylord Brewer's eighteen books of poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, criticism, and cookery is the essay collection Before the Storm Takes It Away (Red Hen, 2024). His poems have appeared in Best American Poetry and The Bedford Introduction to Literature. His many international residencies include Hawthornden Castle (Scotland) and the Global Arts Village (India), and he has taught in Russia, Kenya, England, and the Czech Republic. Brewer was awarded a Tennessee Arts Commission Fellowship in 2009. He is a native of Louisville, Kentucky, earned a Ph.D. from Ohio State University, and has been a professor at Middle Tennessee State University for more than three decades.
