Will Brewer’s first book of poems, I Know Your Kind, was a winner of the National Poetry Series. His debut novel, The Red Arrow, was published by Knopf in 2022 and received the Silver Medal for First Fiction from the California Book Awards. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Yale Review, The Nation, and The Sewanee Review. Formerly a Stegner Fellow, he’s now a Jones Lecturer at Stanford. He lives in Oakland.
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Books by Will Brewer
Spanning Appalachia to California, Will Brewer’s new poems attempt to make sense of some of life’s darkest turns: a father’s bout with leukemia, the slog of mental illness, a friend’s early death, and the rise of environmental catastrophes in the West.
Uncanny, heartbreaking, and often surreal, this National Poetry Series winner is an unforgettable elegy for the people and places that have been lost to opioids in rural Appalachia.
