Brendan Walsh has lived and taught in South Korea, Laos, and South Florida. His work has appeared in Rattle, Glass Poetry, Indianapolis Review, American Literary Review, Baltimore Review, Maine Review, The American Journal of Poetry, and other journals. He has been awarded America Magazine’s Foley Poetry Prize and the Claire Keyes Poetry Prize through Salem State University’s Soundings East Magazine, as well as grants from Fulbright and Broward County Cultural Division.

He is the author of Make Anything Whole (Five Oaks Press, 2015), Go (Aldrich Press, 2016), Buddha vs. Bonobo (Sutra Press, 2017), the only flesh to feed you (YellowJacket Press, 2018), and fort lauderdale (Grey Book Press, 2019). His latest collection, concussion fragment, is the winner of the 2022 Florida Book Award Gold Medal. He is co-host of the Fat Guy, Jacked Guy podcast with Stef Rubino.