Nazli Karabiyikoglu

AUTHOR BIO: Nazli Karabıyıkoğlu is a Turkish author, now full-time resident in Georgia, who recently escaped from the political, cultural, and gender oppression in Turkey. She helped create the #MeToo movement within the Turkish publishing industry, from which she was then excommunicated. With an M.A. in Turkish Language and Literature from Bogazici University, Karabıyıkoğlu has five published books in Turkish and has recently completed translations of three new books for international publication. Having won six literary awards in her country, she was nominated for Pushcart Prize in Fiction in 2019 and won The UnCollected Press/Raw Art Review Full Length Book of Short Stories with her book "Subdermal Sky". Web: www.nazlikarabiyikoglu.com ******* TRANSLATOR BIO: Eylul Deniz Doganay was born on May 24th, in 1996, in Istanbul, Turkey. She discovered her interest in the English language at a young age and therefore focused on foreign languages and translation. She graduated from Bilkent University in Ankara, where she added French to her working languages, and is an aspiring literary translator. She took on her first long-term project when she began translating the works of Nazli Karabiyikoglu in the summer of 2018, as she believes in the particular work and its universal value, and the translator’s mission to convey that value.