bio

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Greg Turner was born and raised in Gainesville, Florida where he attended Santa Fe Community College and the University of Florida.  The most valuable skills he took from those institutions are critical thinking and the ability to cut through bureaucratic bullshit, two skills not unrelated. Greg Turner also learned he could get a graduate degree in story telling and took it upon himself to do so.  In 1998 he completed coursework and a thesis necessary to earn an MFA in fiction from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington.  Greg has since been employed as a resume writer (don’t ask, he will not look at your resume), advertising copy writer, help-files developer, project manager, college instructor,  and Web designer and developer.  His most interesting jobs have been in warehouses.

Greg has written game reviews for Insidemacgames.com and Buzzjive.com and has had fiction accepted for publication in The Quarterly, edited by Gordon Lish, Atlantis and various online publications.  He remains a contributing member of Gainesville Poets and Writers, the town’s oldest continuing writing group and is a steering committee member for the Writers Alliance of Gainesville. In 2002 Greg Turner published a collection of short stories entitled Building and was the regular food columnist for Satellite Magazine (RIP, print edition). Greg Turner currently writes and takes photographs for the popular food blog, Kitchen Sojourn, and was co-founder and primary contributer for Independent Report, a popular politics blog (now sadly remaindered to the Wayback Machine).

Greg believes the barbecue battles were settled quite nicely long ago in the Carolinas, thanks, a good pulled pork being the art’s finest achievement.

In 2003 he moved back to Gainesville, Florida and lives there with his wife and daughter and son, all of whom are much greater than he deserves.