John Brehm was born and raised in Lincoln, Nebraska and educated at the University of Nebraska and Cornell University.
He is the author of two full length books of poetry, Sea of Faith, which won the 2004 Brittingham Prize, and Help Is on the Way, which won the 2012 Four Lakes Prize, both from the University of Wisconsin Press, and a chapbook, The Way Water Moves, from Flume Press. He is the associate editor for The Oxford Book of American Poetry and the editor of The Poetry of Impermanence, Mindfulness, and Joy. His poems have appeared in Poetry, The Gettysburg Review, The Southern Review, Boulevard, Gulf Coast, The Missouri Review, New Ohio Review, The Writer’s Almanac, The Best American Poetry 1999 and 2017, The Norton Introduction to Literature, and many other journals and anthologies.
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