madeline augusta turner is a poet anthropologist from rural ohio.
She is currently pursuing a PhD in anthropology at Stanford University, where her writing and research are centered on soil and life in transforming landscapes. Creating across genres, Madeline is finishing a poetry manuscript about water, contemporary American rurality, and toxicity.
My ethnographic fieldwork has been supported by the Fulbright Program. I have received support to attend a Vermont Studio Center residency (2026), have previously attended the Kenyon Writer's Workshop (2022), and have received a Brooklyn Poets Fellowship (2021). At Smith College, I was awarded the Elizabeth Babcock Poetry Prize for poetry, the Gertrude Posner Spencer Prize for excellence in creative nonfiction, and the Samuel Bowles Prize for a distinguished paper in anthropology.
Arkansas, July 2022
Georgia, August 2022
North Carolina, August 2022
