Scout Turkel

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Cohort Year: 2025
Research Interests: 20th/21st century literature & culture, poetry & poetics, life writing, history of science, feminist epistemologies, natural philosophy
Education: MFA, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, 2024; BA, University of California-Berkeley, 2021

 I am a poet and writer. I research how life gets made, and how it is written about. My work concerns poetic imagination, social and biological reproduction, nature, knowledge, sleep, power, absurdity, and love. Solitude & Society is my first book (Nightboat Books, 2027).