I am a fiction writer and literary translator of the Turkish short story.
Colorado • İstanbul
My translation collection of Turkiye's foundational story master, Memduh Şevket Esendal, is forthcoming from the imprint Translation Attached.
View in Translation Attached's 2026–27 catalogue →I am compiling Orhan Veli's prose and working on Memduh Şevket Esendal's novel Ayaşlı ile Kiracıları.
I am eager to discover up-and-coming Turkish writers, in particular those who lean towards the briefer side of narrative. If you are a published author in need of an English translator, please contact me with a sample.
Türkiye'den yeni yazarları keşfetmek çok istiyorum, özellikle öykücüleri. Kitabınız varsa ve İngilizceye çevirtmeyi düşünüyorsanız, bana mesaj atabilirsiniz, bir örnek ekleyerek.
I translate what I love to write: short stories! Mine unfold between the Sonoran Desert and the European side of İstanbul.
My linked collection draws on the voices of Jean Rhys, Françoise Sagan, and Caroline Blackwood.
My stories have appeared in The Kenyon Review, Sonora Review, Quarterly West, Meridian, Denver Syntax, Danse Macabre, Blackbird and elsewhere.
I currently teach Creative Writing at the University of Colorado in Boulder. My previous posts were at Colorado Mountain College in Aspen and Florida State University.