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Born in Athens, Georgia, Brian Teare (he/him) grew up in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. He earned a BA in English and creative writing from the University of Alabama and an MFA in creative writing from Indiana University. His collections of poetry include The Room Where I Was Born (2003), winner of the Brittingham Prize and the 2004 Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry; Sight Map (2009); and Pleasure (2010), winner of the Lambda Literary Award; and Companion Grasses (2013), which was a finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award and was named one of Slate’s best poetry books of 2013. His poetry has also appeared in anthologies, including Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century (2006).
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