Denice H. Turner

An educator, scholar, and creative writer, Denice Turner has taught writing for two decades and specializes in life story. Her first book, Writing the Heavenly Frontier, celebrates the voices of America’s first aviators, while her second, Legacies, takes a narrative approach to what Brené Brown has called “an epidemic of shame.” Her work has been anthologized in Travel Writing: Critical Concepts in Literary and Cultural Studies (Routledge), Borne on Air (Eastern Washington UP), and has appeared in AOPA Pilot and Utah State University Magazine. Selections from Legacies have won the Western Literature Association’s Fredrick Manfred Award for narrative nonfiction, and an essay formed from its final chapters was featured in the Georgetown Review as one of its national prose prize winners.