Frederick Turner is a poet, science-fiction novelist, literary critic, and philosopher of science. He was also coeditor and then editor of the Kenyon Review from 1978 to 1983 and an associate professor of English at Kenyon College from 1972; in 1985 he was appointed Founders Professor of Art and Humanities at the University of Texas at Dallas. His poetry integrates his vision as a student of the sciences with his narrative and poetic skills. His book-length poem The Return (1981) has helped to bring both fiction and extended narrative back into poetry, and his latest book, The New World (forthcoming in 1985), has gone a long way toward reviving the epic form in American and British poetry.

Turner has had poems, stories, and articles published in periodicals such as Poetry, the Yale Review, Shenandoah, Kenyon Review, Ontario Review, Cumberland Poetry Review , Missouri Review, Corona, and Poetry Nation Review.

Turner was born in Northamptonshire, England...