About
A good friend—and fellow writer—once told me, “There’s worse ways to make a living than writing.” I’ve discovered since that writing is a way of living, and of living more deeply. Done right, writing helps us live more presently, with presence—more carefully, with care. And living is writing, too; our lives are stories where we seek and find meaning, for our selves and others.
As an author, I hope you might enjoy exploring the titles available on this site that I’ve created or co-created. May these resonant in some way with your own life-stories. As an editor, I hope you might avail yourself of my decades of professional writing and publishing experiences. I welcome you to contact me for editorial assistance on your creative writing, scholarly projects, grants, and/or business or technical writing. I offer a range of services, from developmental editing to copyediting. Every writer needs an editor, and I’m here to help.
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Daniel Cross Turner’s creative writing appears in Birmingham Poetry Review, Five Points, James Dickey Review, Literary Matters, Talking River, and Hub City Press, among other venues. In addition to dozens of scholarly essays published by prominent presses, including Cambridge and Oxford, Turner has published five books: a collection of original poetry, Riding Light (CLASS, 2024); a scholarly monograph on contemporary verse, Southern Crossings: Poetry, Memory, and the Transcultural South (University of Tennessee Press, 2012); a poetry anthology featuring 77 contemporary poets, Hard Lines: Rough South Poetry (USC Press, 2016); an essay collection on new visions of the Southern gothic, Undead Souths: The Gothic and Beyond in Southern Literature and Culture (LSU Press, 2015 / paperback 2022); and a coedited poetry anthology exploring diverse visions of the coast from 50 poets, Coast Lines (CLASS, 2025). He earned his Ph.D. at Vanderbilt University, taught literature and writing at the college level for two decades, and now serves as Head of Outreach & Programming for the Georgetown County Library. A native South Carolinian, he lives on the coast in Murrells Inlet.