TISH TURL CURRICULUM VITAE

EDUCATION

  • (2026) MFA, Poetry/Creative Writing, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL

  • (2023) BA, English and Creative Writing, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL

  • (2011) AAS, History, Spoon River College, Canton, IL

SELECTED WORK EXPERIENCE

  • (2023-2026) Teaching Assistant (TA), Southern Illinois University. Classes taught: English Composition I, English Composition II, Introduction to Creative Writing. 

OTHER POSITIONS + AFFILIATIONS

  • (2019-present) Co-editor, Locust Review.

  • (2020-present) Co-host, Locust Radio. 

  • (2022-present), Writer and artist, Born Again Labor Museum. 

  • (2019-present) Locust Arts and Letters Collective (LALC)

SELECTED WRITING (NON-FICTION)

  • (2025) Tish Turl, “Class Revenge Fanfiction: Imagination Against Capitalism,” Spectre (October 14, 2025)

  • (2024) Tish Turl with Adam Turl, “Questions from a Poet Who Workshops,” Locust Review #11 (Winter 2024), insert

  • (2021) Tish Turl, “Under Covers: Harriet Porber + The Tingleverse,” Tish Turl review of Chuck Tingle, Imago #1 (Fall, 2021), 14-15

SELECTED WRITING (FICTION + POETRY)

  • (2025/2026) Tish Turl, “Am I Still from This Town?” Locust Review #13 (Winter 2025/2026), 33

  • (2025/2026) Tish Turl, “Elegy for Faithful Mapmakers,” Locust Review #13 (Winter 2025/2026), 9

  • (2025/2026) Tish Tur;, “Customer Feedback for the Apocalypse,” Locust Review #13 (Winter 2025/2026), 23

  • (2025) Tish Turl, "Hospitality Engine,” Locust Review #12 (Spring 2025), 46

  • (2025) Tish Turl, “Space Goths: The Play,” Locust Review #12 (Spring 2025), 38-45

  • (2021-2024) Tish Turl with Adam Turl, “Stink Ape Resurrection Primer” (parts 1-7), Locust Review #5-11 (Summer 2021 - Winter 2024)

  • (2021) “Paranoid Androids,” (RPG Sketch) Tish Turl, Locust Review #4 (Winter 2021), 19

  • (2020-2021) Sound, (chapters 1-9) Tish Turl, Locust Review #2-4 (Spring 2020 - Winter, 2021) 

  • (2019) “Memez,” Tish Turl, Locust Review #1 (Fall 2019), 11

  • (2019) “Space Goths,” Tish Turl, Locust Review #1 (Fall 2019), 5 

  • (2019) “Sewerbot,” Tish Turl, RedWedgeMagazine.com (May 1, 2019)

  • (2019) “Flog Hill: Four Poems” Tish Turl, RedWedgeMagazine.com (May 1, 2019)

PRESENTATIONS

  • (2025) “Working-Class Fan-Fiction in Gothic Capitalism” Historical Materialism Montreal/The Great Transition, University of
    Quebec-Montreal, Montreal, QC (May 31, 2025)

  • (2021) “Slouching Towards Bethlehem (Again),” Historical Materialism Online 2021 (conference usually held at SOAS University of London, UK, but held online due to pandemic) (Nov, 2021)

HONORS + AWARDS

  • (2023) William Lewis Farmer Memorial Fund

  • (2023) Thelma Louise Kellogg Scholarship

SELECTED REVIEWS, PRESS + MEDIA COVERAGE 

  • (2022) Frances Madeson, “At the Born Again Labor Museum, art is a weapon for the working-class,” The Real News Network (October 13, 2022)

  • (2022) Alice McIntyre, “Irrealism, Imagination, Intervention: The Locust Review,” Cooper Point Journal (March 30, 2022), 12-13

  • (2022) Anna Casey (producer), “Museum examines workers’ rights through art,” 21st Show (February 7, 2022)

  • (2022) Kallie Cox, “Born Again Labor Museum offers free Communist Manifestos,” The Southern Illinoisan (February 1, 2022)

  • (2022) Makayla Holder, “Solidarity doesn’t mean everyone is the same: Locust Review showcases working-class stories,” The Southern Illinoisan (January 13, 2022)

  • (2021) Kallie Cox, “Born Again Labor Museum in Carbondale showcases stories of working class,” The Southern Illinoisan (December 27, 2021)

  • (2021) Sebastian Schuller, “Durch die Maschinen! Umfunktionierung des kapitalistischen Realismus als Strategie linker Erzählungen im 21. Jahrhundert,” Undercurrents 16 (2021).

  • (2020) “Tish Markley and Adam Turl Bring Their Art To Core Contemporary March 25th,” Vim Magazine (March 5, 2020)

SELECTED INTERVIEWS + ROUNDTABLES

  • (2025) Bram E. Gieben interviews Adam Turl and Tish Turl, “Art, Activism, and Hope,” Strange Exiles Ep. 40 (August 14, 2025)

  • (2024) Wayne Heimbach interviews Adam and Tish Turl, “Art. Politics. Carbondale.,” Facing Reality 4 Social Justice Ep. 25 (November 21, 2024)

  • (2022) Anupam Roy, Tish Turl, Adam Turl (roundtable), “Constructing Counter-Imaginaries,” Imago #2 (May 2023), 55-68

  • (2022) C. Derick Varn, “Adam Turl and Tish Turl on the Born Again Labor Museum, Radicalism, and Art,” Varn Vlog (December 2, 2022