Nur Turkmani
Nur is a writer from Beirut, whose work appears in Poetry, New England Review, Copper Nickel, The Rumpus and others. She was awarded the Anthony Veasna So Scholarship for fiction from The Adroit Journal. She studied creative writing at the University of Oxford and politics at the London School of Economics and the American University of Beirut.
Nur’s debut poetry collection, October, was longlisted for the 2026 Jerwood Prize for Best First Collection.