Ron Turner

Ron Turner began writing poetry in 1990. He published his first collection of poems, Man, God & Other Stuff , in 1991, which he updated and published in 1997 as My Father, My Sons, and Me in Between . Ron's work has appeared in Life's Little Treasure Book on Fathers , by H. Jackson Brown, and in Southern Voices in Every Direction , edited by Margaret Britton Vaughn, poet laureate of Tennessee. He has been a featured reader at the Southern Festival of Books in Nashville, and his work appeared...See more

Ron Turner began writing poetry in 1990. He published his first collection of poems, Man, God & Other Stuff , in 1991, which he updated and published in 1997 as My Father, My Sons, and Me in Between . Ron's work has appeared in Life's Little Treasure Book on Fathers , by H. Jackson Brown, and in Southern Voices in Every Direction , edited by Margaret Britton Vaughn, poet laureate of Tennessee. He has been a featured reader at the Southern Festival of Books in Nashville, and his work appeared in the spring 2014 issue of Reflections . Ron received his law degree and his master's in theological studies from Vanderbilt University. In 2008 he received his PhD in public administration from Tennessee State University. Ron practiced law for more than twenty years in Nashville before becoming an assistant professor of criminal justice at Cumberland University for seven years. He retired in 2013 as the director of religious and volunteer services for the Tennessee Department of Correction. See less