M. M. Turner (Michelle M. Turner) is a poet and editor currently living in northern Colorado, following a handful of years in southern Arizona. Born in the foothills of central Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains, Michelle has also lived in Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Michigan, Iowa, and Taiwan. She holds a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from the University of Michigan and a Bachelor of Arts in English and Spanish from the University of Virginia. Her poetry, previously published under "Michelle Turner," has appeared in The Baltimore Review, The Greensboro Review, Southern Humanities Review, Spoon River Poetry Review, Sixth Finch, The Shore, and other publications. She works as a graduate program advisor for Ball State University and as an independent editor via Word Forward, LLC.