on Turner’s fiction,
“Like watching a magician having you pull the card you picked out of some random stranger’s pocket.”
– Craig Clevenger, author of The Contortionist’s Handbook, Dermaphoria, and Mother Howl
on Turner’s poetry,
“Turner inspires a look inwards on the things and moments we often take for granted.”
– Ashley Hubbard for Books Beans and Botany
on Turner’s book,
With Only Which She Could Carry,
“An impeccable literary contribution and a rising talent to keep our eyes on. A master at dropping the reader directly into another person, in any time and place, and getting to the heart of them. You will find pieces of yourself inside her poems.
Her collection “With Only Which She Could Carry” is filled with poetic wormholes and tangible emotional landscapes, a human condition house of cards and mirrors and light play that reflects us reflecting it reflecting us, into the infinite.“
– Jason Arias, author of NostraDAMus 2032 and Momentary Illumination of Objects In Motion.
on Turner’s chapbook,
to Unfurl,
“The work is captivating and unique, exploring the innermost emotions of man and drawing comparisons to nature and the celestial bodies.
Nicole Jean Turner’s poetry is well-crafted with simple words that are easy to understand and captivating narratives. Her work is meticulously organized and thoughtfully placed”
– Luwi Nyakansaila for Readers Favorite
on Turner’s book,
With Only Which She Could Carry,
“Fulfills the goals: Make ’em laugh, teach ’em something, and break their hearts.”
– Peter Derk, author of The LitReactor Years Omnibus
on Turner’s chapbook,
to Unfurl,
“I was enthralled by (her) poetry. I think I will be reading it over and over again. So many wonderful lines. These poems are truly wonderful“
– Stephanie Schorow, Boston Journalist & Author of Cat Dreaming
on Turner’s poetry,
“I kept getting knocked over line after line.”
-Andrea Gibson, poet laureate of Colorado, Write Your Heart In
on Turner’s chapbook, Coffee Stout and Rain Water,
“A soft prayer for Portland and a sweet packet full of love, loss, and hope, so well done.”
-David Ciminello, Lambda Literary Fellow and author of The Queen of Steeplechase Park
on Turner’s book, With Only Which She Could Carry,
“Excellent…poetry written with clear eyes and sharp, insightful language. It’s full of beauty, pain, but most important of all…heart.”
– Tyler Jones, author Midas, Criterium, The Dark Side of the Room, Almost Ruth, and several others.
on Turner’s book,
With Only Which She Could Carry,
“Very intense, I like it👍“
– Turner’s dad
“her command of language and her ability to use it to draw you into the scene she’s painted are undeniable..”
From Reader Reviews on Amazon
“teeming with new imagery that I could enter into right away, Nicole Jean Turner expresses the depths of the universal longing to belong in an immediate personal way. She connects so well to the sense of being lost and found, to that place of loneliness, that as a reader I know that I’m not alone.
Profound. Different..”
“Turner’s abstract style and compelling language paint a vivid journey of the human spirit..”
