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, knowledge, and life in transforming landscapes. Creating across genres, Madeline is working on 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) and the Bread Loaf Environmental Writers' Conference (2026), have previously attended the Kenyon Writer's Workshop (2022), and have received a Brooklyn Poets Fellowship (2021).