Nur Turkmani

Nur Turkmani is a writer from Beirut. She’s at work on a short story collection and has a poetry collection selected by Chen Chen for Purple Ink’s Poetry Prize and forthcoming in 2026 with Hajar Press. Her writing appears in The Missouri Review, New England Review, Short Fiction, Poetry London, Evergreen Review, Copper Nickel, The Rumpus, The Adroit Journal, West Branch, DAZED, The Offing, and others. Her poem “Burnt Apple” was selected as a finalist for Columbia Journal’s Poetry Contest by Rodney Terich Leonard, and “Body Parts” was a finalist for the Barjeel Prize, selected by Hala Alyan. She received the Anthony Veasna So Scholarship for fiction from The Adroit Journal. (Source)