Daniel Cross Turner is the author of Southern Crossings: Poetry, Memory, and the Transcultural South (University of Tennessee Press, 2012). His essays have appeared in edited collections as well as in journals such as Mosaic, Genre: Forms of Discourse and Culture, Mississippi Quarterly, The Southern Literary Journal, Southern Quarterly, and The South Carolina Review. He has also published many interviews with writers, including Natasha Trethewey in Waccamaw, Charles Wright in storySouth, Yusef Komunyakaa in Mississippi Quarterly, and Daniel Wallace in storySouth. He is co-editing a collection of essays on southern deathways and undeadness, titled The Undead South: Beyond the Gothic, for Louisiana State University Press. He is co-editor of the southern literature listserv on H-Net (H-Southern-Lit) and an assistant professor of English at Coastal Carolina University.  

Photo by Keaghan Turner, 2012