Nur Turkmani
Nur is a writer from Beirut. Her work appears in Poetry, New England Review, Copper Nickel, The Rumpus and others. October is her debut poetry collection and was selected by Chen Chen as winner of the Purple Ink Press Poetry Contest.
Nur is at work on a short story collection and 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.