September 28, 2025

Nur Turkmani

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Nur Turkmani is a writer from Beirut. Her work has appeared in Poetry, New England Review, Copper Nickel, The Rumpus, and elsewhere. Her debut poetry collection is forthcoming from Hajar Press in spring 2026. She is at work on a short story collection and was awarded the Anthony Veasna So Scholarship for fiction by The Adroit Journal. Nur studied creative writing at the University of Oxford, and politics at the London School of Economics and the American University of Beirut.

To discover a truth
is to discover
a fundamental limit.

Time is dead.
I have no illusions.

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