books
Solitude and Society (Forthcoming, Nightboat Books)
Recipient of the 2025 Nightboat Prize:
“A collection of lyric meditations, Solitude & Society radiates a poetics of attunement that is “gentle but not easy.” Achingly, Scout Turkel’s voice reaches through the blur of loneliness and against the corrosions of grief. These poems comb the unanswerable questions of modernity’s alienation, motherhood and childhood, a poet’s labor, and the dreams that visit us and choose to stay. Gracefully restrained without ever obscuring the heart, these poems keep vigil, then pucker with boldness and humor. Most of all, this subtle debut reminds us that poetry is a devotional practice of being wakeful in the world, especially when one so desperately wants to sleep and sleep.” – Destiny Hemphill & Santi Valencia
poems
Little Mirror (2026)
The End of Writing
Knowledge
Gentle Poem
Fence (2026)
Gentle Poem
Snowflakes in Photographs
Walden
Rejected Lit (2025)
Mountain Day
Bennington Review (2023)
Starring
Chicago Review (2023)
Interval
Annulet (2022)
Spring Pools
Oversound (2021)
Science
Tagvverk (2021)
Weather
Sasha
Isabel
Saint Gianna
FMK
bæst: a journal of queer forms & affects (2019)
Greedy Algorithm
Plein Air
The Spectacle (2019)
Gauche Landscape
Neurosis Tercets
Two Peach Journal (2017)
Chronology
Matteo
Tunnel Magazine (2017)
Dichromic
prose
“Everything Ars/The Ars Era” for Annulet Editions, co-written with Hannah Brooks-Motl (2026)
“A poetry that only the enemy could understand”: Silence, Speech, and Ambivalence in Sean Bonney’s Letters Against the Firmament for Little Mirror Mag (2024)
Sex on Tuesday for The Daily Californian (2020)
Swedish Synth-Pop for the End of the World in The Annex (2020)
Q&A with Brandon Shimoda in ZYZZYVA Magazine (2019)
Book Reviews for ZYZZYVA Magazine (2019)