John Brehm was born in Lincoln, Nebraska, and educated at the University of Nebraska and Cornell University. He is the author of
No Day at the Beach (2020);
Help Is on the Way (2012), winner of the Four Lakes Prize from the University of Wisconsin Press; and
Sea of Faith (2004), which won the Brittingham Prize. Brehm has published a chapbook titled,
The Way Water Moves (2002). He was the associate editor of
The Oxford Book of American Poetry (2006) and editor of the volume
The Poetry of Impermanence, Mindfulness, and Joy (2017). His poems have appeared in
Poetry, The Gettysburg Review, The Southern Review, Boulevard, Gulf Coast, The Missouri Review, New Ohio Review, The Sun, The Best American Poetry 1999, The Norton Introduction to Literature, and many other journals and anthologies. He lives in Portland, Oregon, and teaches at Oregon Literary Arts and Mountain Writers Series in Portland, and at Lighthouse Writers Workshop in Denver, Colorado. (
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