About

Lauren Turner is a disabled poet and essayist. Her chapbook, We’re Not Going to Do Better Next Time, was published by knife | fork | book in March 2018, and her full-length debut, The Only Card in a Deck of Knives, came out with Wolsak & Wynn in August 2020. The Only Card in a Deck of Knives was shortlisted for the Fred Cogswell Award for Excellence in Poetry.

Her work has appeared in Grain, Arc Magazine, PRISM International, Poetry is Dead, Cosmonauts Avenue, The Maynard, The Puritan, BAD NUDES, canthius, and elsewhere. She won the 2018 Short Grain Contest, was a finalist for carte blanche’s 2017 3Macs Prize, and made the longlist for Room Magazine’s 2019 creative non-fiction contest.

Turner lives in Tiohtiá:ke (Montréal) on the unceded land of the Kanien’kehá:ka Nation. She is presently working on a cross-genre collection of poems and lyric essays.