Dr. Kristen Hawley Turner is a Professor at Drew University in New Jersey. Her research focuses on the intersections between technology and literacy, and she works with teachers across content areas to implement effective literacy instruction and to incorporate technology in meaningful ways. A former high school teacher of English and social studies, she collaborates with K–12 colleagues and explores how they implement new literacies in their classrooms. She is the founder and director of the Drew Writing Project and Digital Literacies Collaborative, a site of the National Writing Project, and she has authored numerous journal articles and book chapters dealing with adolescent digitalk, technology and teacher education, and writing instruction. She is the co-author of Teaching Writing in the Age of AI: Strategies for Teachers of Secondary Students (named a Foreward Indies finalist for 2025), Her latest project includes Writing Still Matters (National Writing Project).