Literature Fellowship Recipient
Ayse Bucak, Delary Beach, Florida

Ayse Papatya Bucak was born in Istanbul in 1971. She is an assistant professor in the MFA program at Florida Atlantic University. Her stories and poems have appeared in numerous literary magazines, including Literary Review, Glimmer Train, and Ohio Review. She has been short-listed for the Pushcart Prize and was a writer-in-residence at Hedgebrook Farm. From time to time she keeps a blog, Reading for Writers, on technique in works of fiction: http://www.readingforwriters.blogspot.com. 

To read samples of Ayse's work click on the links below:

Wood for Stone, PDF

Maymum, PDF

Also Known as Fiction, PDF