Author: Sevinç Çalhanoğlu
Sevinç Çalhanoğlu, born in 1988 in Istanbul, Turkey, is a poet, artist, and researcher. Her work explores issues around childhood and memory, grief, and cultural patterns. The transformational aspects of literature have been the main motif in her artistic practice. In addition to poems, she creates interdisciplinary literary works incorporating sound, photography, and painting. She is the author of three books of poetry in Turkish and the initiator of the poetry journal Moero. Her published books in English are: A Promenade at Home (Bored Wolves, 2021) and My Life in Curves Recently (Bored Wolves, 2020). She is based in Brooklyn. Follow Sevinç on Instagram @tamarapekala
(Profile image is a portrait of Sevinç by Civan Özkanoğlu).