Poet (b.
6 August 1960, Trabzon). She completed her primary
and elementary education in the city she was born in. She is a graduate of
Gevher Nesibe Health Education Institute (1986). She worked in Yozgat
(1979-80),
Her first poem, Yıldız Kaydı (The Star Slipped), appeared in the Kıyı review in issue 18, 1983. Her works
were published in the reviews Kıyı,
Karşı, Yeni Biçem, Çağdaş Türk Dili, İnsan, Eşik, İzlek, Şiir-lik starting
from 1983, besides appearing in numerous anthologies and poetry almanacs. She
won the İzmir Municipality Award in 1991, the Petroleum Workers Union Award in
1992, the Yarımca Poem Festival in 1993, the Sabri Altınel Poetry Award in
1993, and the Ali Rıza Ertan Poetry Award in 1993 with her book Kanadı Atlas Kuşlar (Satin Wing Birds);
and with her book named Çılgın Su
(Crazy Water), she received the 1993 Poetry Award of the World Book
Association. With her book Bir Şehrin
Hatıra Fotoğraflarından (From a City’s Souvenir Photographs), she won the
Arıburnu Poetry Award in 1998.
WORKS:
Kanadı
Atlas Kuşlar (Satin Wing Birds, 1991), Çılgın Su (Crazy Water, 1993), Kapalı Gişe Hüzünler (Full-House Blues,
1996), Bir Şehrin Hatıra Fotoğraflarından
(From a City’s Souvenir Photographs, 1999).