Joel E. Turner

Joel E. Turner's fiction has appeared in many US/ UK journals, including Ambit, 3AM Magazine, New Millennium Writings, Mobius, Proof, The Medulla Review, Red Fez, Literary Yard and The Eunoia Review. His dystopian novella “The Fisheye Incident” appeared as a serial in Ambit in 2000. Articles he has written about Soul music have been featured on the UK-based Soul-Source-co-UK website, a major platform for news and writing on the Northern Soul scene.

Mr. Turner received a BA from Kenyon College and an MBA from the University of Michigan. He suspects that he is the only Michigan MBA to have written his BA honors thesis on the fiction of William S. Burroughs.

Mr. Turner has combined his writing work with a career as a consultant in business analytics to banks in the US and Europe. His first story publication was selected by J. G. Ballard, then the fiction editor of Ambit magazine, in 1996. Remarking on Mr. Turner’s work in the banking software business, Ballard commented that “banking software sounds a vastly more interesting form of fiction”.

Links to many of his stories can be found at his website, along with blog posts about literature, music (especially R&B/Soul recordings) and films.

Mr. Turner splits his time between Philadelphia and White Cloud, Michigan.