Nur Kardelen

M. Turandot is the author of Wilhelmina, the libretto Muirgen's Carousel: The Hope of Return, and At the Angle of Blue. Nur Kardelen is her third novel and the first to draw on her earliest training: twelve years of classical piano in a pedagogical lineage descending from Leschetizky and Schnabel, a mezzo-soprano's education, and jazz vocal performance touring with the University of Michigan Women's Glee Club. She returned to that training in composing the novel's eleven original songs. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and an MBA from the University of Michigan (Nur's own campus), and has served for eight years as a judge for the Austin Film Festival. Her work moves across forms in pursuit of a single question: how stories actually land in the human nervous system. Each form is an instrument for investigating the same phenomenon.She lives in Manakin Sabot, Virginia. Visit her at mturandotauthor.com.