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He has three published books of poetry and a sequence of
poems in a musical/poetic/dramatic production on compact
disk, entitled The Book of Ed. As a translator, he has
rendered into English the work of several Latin American,
Spanish and Turkish poets. He and Saliha Paker have cotranslated
a number of poems by Turkish poets and Latife
Tekinʼs novel Sevgili Arsız Ölüm (Dear Shameless Death).
Richard McKane studied Classics and Russian at
Marlborough College, graduating from Oxford in 1969, the
same year he published Selected Poems of Anna Akhmatova
(an expanded edition of which appeared from Bloodaxe
Books in 1989). He began to learn Turkish in the late 1960s
and lived in Turkey during the 1970s. He contributed
to the Penguin Book of Turkish Verse and, with Ruth
Christie, published collections from Oktay Rifat and Nazım
Hikmet. He has also translated or co-translated more than
a dozen books of Russian poetry, including a collection of
Mandelstam (from Bloodaxe) and, recently, Ten Russian
Poets (Anvil Press). Two books of his own poetry,
The Turkey Poems and Coffeehouse Poems, have been
published in English and Turkish by Yapı Kredi Yayınları.
Murat Nemet-Nejatʼs most recent work includes Eda:
An Anthology of Contemporary Turkish Poetry (Talisman
House, 2004), essays in Diaspora: homelands in exile,
photographs/voices (HarperCollins, 2003), the essay
“The Peripheral Space of Photography” (Green Integer,
2003) and the poems “Steps,” “Aishe Series and Other
Harbor Poems” and “A Thirteenth Century Dream” (www.
cipherjournal.com). His essay “Eleven Septembers Later:
Readings of Benjamin Hollanderʼs Vigilance” will appear
as a companion piece to Ben Hollanderʼs poem Vigilance,
to be published by Beyond Baroque Press in 2005.
Önder Otçu did his undergraduate work at Haceteppe
University in Ankara, Turkey, and his graduate work in
social anthropology at the University of Oslo, Norway. A
translator from Norwegian, English, and Portuguese into
Turkish, and from Turkish into English, he is also a critic
and novelist. His much praised translations of works by
the distinguished Turkish poet İlhan Berk are collected in
Berkʼs Selected Poems (2004). Önder Otçu was a resident
fellow at the MacDowell Artistsʼ Colony in 2002. He lives
in Istanbul.
Saliha Paker is a professor of Translation Studies in the
Department of Translation and Interpreting Studies at
Boğaziçi University, Istanbul. Since 1992, she has been an
Honorary Research Fellow of the Centre for Byzantine,
Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies, University of
Birmingham. She studied English and Classics at Istanbul
University and has taught at the School of Oriental and
African Studies, University of London. For the last twenty
years her research has focused on Ottoman and modern
Turkish translation history. Her work in English includes
an edited volume, translations: (re)shaping of literature
and culture (Boğaziçi University Press, 2002), essays
in various international publications, and translations of
modern Turkish poetry and fi ction. She is currently on
the Executive Council of the International Association of
Translation and Intercultural Studies and on the Translation
Committee of the International Comparative Literature
Association.
Richard Tillinghast is the author of eight books of poetry,
most recently Six Mile Mountain (2000), as well as two
books of literary criticism and memoir, Robert Lowell:
Damaged Grandeur (1995) and Poetry and What Is Real
(2004).
Sidney Wade, guest editor for the current issue, received
her Ph.D. in English from the University of Houston
and is a professor in the Creative Writing program at
the University of Florida. She was a Fulbright Fellow
in Istanbul in 1989–90 and received a fellowship to the
Breadloaf Writersʼ Conference in Vermont in 1994. She
is currently vice president of The Association of Writers
& Writing Programs (AWP). Her translations of Turkish
poets such as Yahya Kemal, Pir Sultan Abdal, and Gülseli
İnal have appeared in venues including Two Lines, Eda:
An Anthology of Contemporary Turkish Literature, The
Kenyon Review, and Kitaplik. She has published four
collections of poetry, including Celestial Bodies (2002),
Green (1998), and Istanbulʼdan / From Istanbul (1998).
Her poetry has been published in journals such as The New
Yorker, Poetry, Paris Review, and Yale Review.
Serya Yeşilçay received her B.A. in Western Languages and
Literature from Bosphorus University in Istanbul, Turkey
and her M.A. in Journalism and Mass Communication from
the University of Florida. She currently lives in Gainesville,
Florida, where she teaches magazine and feature writing at
the University of Florida (and is in the process of writing
her own great American novel).
Melike Yılmaz (M.A.) is a research assistant in the
Department of Translation and Interpreting Studies
at Boğaziçi University, Istanbul. Her M.A thesis is A
Translational Journey: Orhan Pamuk in English, 2004.
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