Author: Daniel Cross Turner

Daniel Cross Turner’s poetry appears in Birmingham Poetry Review, James Dickey Review, and Talking River (edited by Rebecca Gayle Howell). In addition to numerous scholarly essays, he has published three books: a scholarly monograph, Southern Crossings: Poetry, Memory, and the Transcultural South; an anthology, Hard Lines: Rough South Poetry; and an essay collection, Undead Souths: The Gothic and Beyond in Southern Literature and Culture. He earned his doctorate at Vanderbilt, where he worked with poets Kate Daniels and Mark Jarman, and he has published several interviews with contemporary writers, including Patrick Phillips, Yusef Komunyakaa, Natasha Trethewey, Daniel Wallace, and Charles Wright.