Nur Turkmani is a writer and researcher. She grew up in Kumasi and Tripoli, and lives between Beirut and Lisbon. Her debut poetry collection, October, was selected by Chen Chen as winner of Purple Ink’s Poetry Contest and is forthcoming with Hajar Press in 2026.

She’s at work on a short story collection and was awarded the Anthony Veasna So Scholarship for fiction from The Adroit Journal. Her writing appears or is forthcoming in Poetry, The Missouri Review, New England Review, Short Fiction, Wasafiri, Poetry London, Evergreen Review, Copper Nickel, The Rumpus, The Adroit Journal, West Branch, DAZED, The Offing, and others. Her poem “Burnt Apple” was selected by Rodney Terich Leonard as a finalist for Columbia Journal’s Poetry Contest, and “Body Parts” by Hala Alyan for the Barjeel Art Foundation Prize. Her fiction was shortlisted for The Iowa Review Award, her poetry for The Rumpus Poetry Prize, and her nonfiction for Disquiet’s Literary Contest.

Nur studied creative writing at the University of Oxford and politics at the London School of Economics and the American University of Beirut. She works as a researcher and evaluator for international agencies, NGOs, and think-tanks. She is a recipient of the 2016 LSE Middle East Center Scholarship, the 2014 AUB Mohamad Chatah Scholarship, and the 2016 Randa Antoun Award for Public Service and Civic Engagement. She’s an editor-at-large at Rusted Radishes: Beirut’s Art and Literary Journal.