A. Papatya Bucak

A. Papatya Bucak has published stories, poems, and essays in a variety of literary magazines, including Glimmer Train, Mississippi Review, and The Fairy Tale Review.  Her fiction has been short-listed for the Mississippi Review Prize, the Spokane Prize, and the Pushcart Prize.  She was the recipient of a 2005 Individual Artist’s Fellowship from the State of Florida, and has been a writer-in-residence at Hedgebrook Farm.  She was born in Istanbul, Turkey.

Samples of her writing can be found here, here, and here.

From time to time, she keeps a blog, Reading for Writers, on technique in works of fiction.

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