is a first-generation Turkish immigrant, a scientist, and an editor in nonprofit healthcare. She’s a Tin House Workshop ‘24 and Catapult 12-Month Novel Generator ‘23 alum. Her fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Reckon Review and Occulum. Her short stories were finalists for the 2023 Robert Day Award for Fiction (New Letters), 56th New Millennium Writing Awards (New Millennium Writings), and the 2023 Montana Prize for Fiction (Whitefish Review). She’s currently working on her first novel and lives in Brooklyn, NY.