Brian Tierney, Third Place winner of Narrative’s Sixteenth Annual Poetry Contest, is the author of Rise and Float (Milkweed, 2022), winner of the Jake Adam York Prize. He is a former Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University and a graduate of the Bennington College Writing Seminars and was awarded the 2018 George Bogin Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America. Raised in Philadelphia, he lives in Oakland, California, where he teaches poetry at the low-residency MFA program at Dominican University.
WORKS THAT HAVE APPEARED IN NARRATIVE:
- Three Poems, poetry, in Spring 2014
- Dauphin County , poetry, in Poems of the Week: 2013–2014