Next Reader

Lindsay Turner

Welles-Brown Room, Rush Rhees Library

February 16, 2027, 5:00 PM

Lindsay Turner is the author of three collections of poetry, the most recent of which is Middle Slope (forthcoming October 2026, Farrar, Straus and Giroux). Her debut work, Songs and Ballads (2018, Prelude Books) was named one of the Best Poetry Collections of 2018 by the Chicago Tribune, while her collection The Upstate (2023, University of Chicago Press), was named an Outstanding Poetry Book of 2023 by the California Review of Books. Her poetry has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The Yale Review, The Atlantic, Lit Hub and more. She is also a French-to-English translator of poetry, philosophy, and children's books. Turner lives in Cleveland, Ohio, with her husband and son and is Associate Professor of English and creative writing at Case Western Reserve University.