Daniel Cross Turner

Daniel Cross Turner’s (Ph.D., Vanderbilt) creative writing has been published by Birmingham Poetry Review, Five Points, James Dickey Review, Literary Matters, Talking River, and Hub City Press, among other venues. In addition to dozens of scholarly essays on literature and film, 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 has published several interviews with contemporary writers, including Rebecca Gayle Howell, Patrick Phillips, Yusef Komunyakaa, Natasha Trethewey, Daniel Wallace, and Charles Wright. He serves as Head of Outreach & Programming for the Georgetown County Library, as Vice-Chair for the South Carolina Academy of Authors, and as Managing Partner with Consulting Professors, which specializes in customized guidance for academic applications.