Welcome
Michelle Turner is a poet and editor based in Tucson, Arizona. She is slowly and carefully learning the language of the desert after time in Virginia, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Michigan, Iowa, Colorado, and Taiwan. Thanks for visiting! Read a full bio here.
What’s New
Michelle’s unpublished book manuscript was a 2025 finalist for the St. Lawrence Book Award (Black Lawrence Press) and a 2026 semifinalist for the Brittingham & Felix Pollak Prizes in Poetry (University of Wisconsin Press).
Summer 2026: “Dear Sounds” forthcoming in Issue #30 of The Shore.
“Caminante son tus huellas
el camino y nada más…”
— Antonio Machado
