Selen Ozturk is a San Francisco-based writer born in Istanbul. Her writing appears in Evergreen Review, Necessary Fiction, Hobart, SF Chronicle, and SFGATE. She has received support from Bread Loaf, GrubStreet, and The Writers’ Grotto.
ozturkselen (at) gmail.com
prose
f/c: Expat Press, Ghost City Review, Split Lip Magazine, Bending Genres, Archetype
plane crash in minor literature[s] (2025)
a story about fishing, gold, murder in Necessary Fiction (2024)
fast driving and cremation in Hobart (2024)
a story about honesty in Hobart (2024)
a story about a man, his vomiting dog, and a woman in Hobart (2024)
an ode to Sea Ranch, California in Where Meadows (2024)
Rosa Bonheur essay in The Oxonian Review (2022)
an essay about the Rothko Chapel in Bayou Magazine (2022)
Rothko Chapel in Wilderness House Literary Review (2022)
essay about ecology/architecture/dictatorship in Arcosanti, Arizona for Archetype (2022)
an essay about Bernard Maybeck and the Palace of Fine Arts in Synchronized Chaos (2022)
poetry
f/c: Spectra Poets
a tennis poem in Sport Literate (2024, print)
three poems in Evergreen Review (2024)
three translations of Provencal troubadour Arnaut Daniel in La Piccioletta Barca (2024)
two poems about Sea Ranch and San Francisco in California Quarterly (2024)
a poem in Haight Ashbury Literary Journal (2024, print)
poems in Ginosko (2024)
poems in MONDAY (2021)
crit
f/c Full Stop, Beyond the Last Estate
two plays reviewed for the San Francisco Chronicle (2023)
Maya Deren, ’70s eco-horror, early CGI, how The Monkees birthed New Hollywood, and Turksploitation cinema for Bright Lights Film Journal (2022 – 2024)
movies, music, and books for PopMatters (2022)
visual art for Whitewall including San Francisco exhibition reviews; a Friday art world party column; international exhibitions like the Venice Biennale, the Recontres d’Arles, Paris Mens’ Fashion Week, and Milan Mens’ Fashion Week; the burgeoning NFT and VR beat; and interviews with artists like Tourmaline, Milagros, Brett Cook, Koen Vanmechelen, Nicolas Bourriaud, Ahmet Güneştekin, and Ignasi Monreal (2022)
arts reporter for The Daily Californian (2022)
two 1970 student protest films for Senses of Cinema (2022)
reviewing Bill McKibben and Barry Lopez for Stone Pier Press (2022)
misc
a short movie about the long-term benefits of psychopathy in the corporate world, Official Selection of the Sacramento International Film Festival and nominated for the IMDB qualifying competition of the LA Independent Women Film Awards (2024)
quoted, covered, interviewed in Verso, the San Francisco Chronicle, Cinema Retro, bivoulab, StudyHall.xyz
journo
ripping up the pavement and greening California’s schoolyards for SFGATE / Bay City News (2023)
city reporter for the Piedmont Post and Bay Area local papers (2022 – 2023)
covering everything from geopolitics to Harry Belafonte for Ethnic Media Services, a nationwide newswire for community media: ADA lawsuit fraud in San Francisco, diaspora Turks after the 2023 earthquake, Dolly Parton bestowing books upon California’s children, migratory grief for the eternal refugee, Bay Area housing gaps, adding 1 million years of life expectancy to LA County by greening it, fighting extreme heat in California’s hottest county, and affordable housing milestones in California (2022 – )
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