Julian Turner

Julian Turner was born in Cheadle Hulme, in 1955 and educated at New College, Oxford and Goldsmith's, London. He now lives in Otley, Yorkshire with his partner and works as a writer, counsellor and supervisor.

His first collection Crossing the Outskirts (Anvil), a Poetry Book Society Recommendation was short-listed for the Forward Best First Collection Prize in 2002. His second, Orphan Sites, was published in 2006. A third, Planet-Struck, also a PBS recommendation was published by Anvil in 2011.