Denice Turner
Denice Turner fled to UNR after twelve years of middle school English teaching in northern Utah. During her graduate work in composition at Utah State she became interested in nature writers as their work seemed to answer some of the problems associated with healing narratives. Denice continues to be interested in how nature, and the practice of nature writing, can act as a healing entity in our fragmented, modern lives, but she is also interested in the idea of ownership and how it might relate (or not) to a sense of kinship with the earth.
Denice’s husband, Lan, lives in Logan, Utah where he owns a computer software company and takes care of their sons, Benjamin and Arthur. Since “the boys” were not able to move to Reno with her, Denice, a private pilot, commutes weekly to UNR via a small airplane that friends have dubbed her “Coors can with wings.” She hopes very much, in addition to learning more about environmental issues and writers, to gain an instrument rating so that she can fly in clouds, thus reducing the need to make forced landings at strange airports in Idaho.