I am a children’s literature and sci-fi writer from Istanbul, Turkey. As a teenager, I published two fantastic novels, Münzevi [Hermit] and Hissizleşme [Numbing] in the 2000s. After I graduated from architecture at Mimar Sinan University, I studied sociology for my master degree and tried to adapt social issues to my fiction writing. My first science-fiction novel, Hayat Üretim Merkezi [Life Production Centre] was published in 2015. This novel is about cyberspace called ‘production centre’ where people can realize anything they desire and decide to create, owing to their imagination levels. For now, Parmak Uçları [Fingertips], Likya’nın Şarkısı [Likya’s Song], Hatırla [Memento], Benden Bize [Me to Us] and Bizden Dünyaya [Us to the World] are my published novels for children and adolescents. As long as I have written for children more, I carried my experience with children to academic works of mine. I studied the subjectivity of adolescents through their interaction with digital technologies for my PhD dissertation. I am interested in changing childhood experiences within online environments, and I teach digital childhoods, children’s literature, creative writing and sociology at several universities. I conduct workshops for different children groups as a P4C trainer (philosophy for children) and write stories and plays. In 2019, I also wrote a non-fiction book about the life and literary works of Ursula K. Le Guin, published in Turkish. Nowadays, I am continuing to work on new writings. (she/her)
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