Selen Ozturk is a San Francisco-based writer born in Istanbul. Evergreen Review, Necessary Fiction, minor literature[s], Hobart, SF Chronicle, SFGATE, and more.

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fiction

What the Body Can DoExpat Press (2025)

PestoVol. 1 Brooklyn (2025)

CancerSplit Lip (2025)

Attendantminor literature[s] (2025)

Is There Still Gold In the American River?Necessary Fiction (2024)

PassengerHobart (2024)

Honest Hobart (2024)

We Did It When You BledHobart (2024)

All That is Solid Melts Into WindWhere Meadows (2024)

poetry

We DroveSpectra Poets (2025)

Valentine’s CardSpectra Poets (2025)

TiebreakSport Literate (2024, print)

three poemsEvergreen Review (2024)

three English-Provencal translations of Arnaut Daniel – La Piccioletta Barca (2024)

two poemsCalifornia Quarterly (2024)

two poems – Haight Ashbury Literary Journal (2024, print)

poemsGinosko (2024)

poemsMONDAY (2021)

crit / journo

f/c Full Stop, Beyond the Last Estate

two plays reviewed – San Francisco Chronicle (2023)

greening California’s schoolyardsSFGATE / Bay City News (2023)

film retrospectives – Bright Lights Film Journal (2022 – 2024) including Maya Deren in Haiti, ’70s eco-horror, early CGI, how The Monkees birthed New Hollywood, and Turksploitation cinema

movies, music, and booksPopMatters (2022)

visual arts reviews – 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 reportingThe Daily Californian (2022)

two 1970 student protest filmsSenses of Cinema (2022)

How Now, Brown CowThe Oxonian Review (2022)

All That Form AllowsBayou Magazine (2022, print)

Rothko ChapelWilderness House Literary Review (2022)

ArcosantiArchetype (2022)

Fabricated RuinsSynchronized Chaos (2022)

reviewing Bill McKibben and Barry Lopez – Stone Pier Press (2022)

freelance reporting / research – 2,000 community outlets through a national newswire (2022- )

city reporter for Bay Area hyperlocal papers (2022 – 2023)

misc

wrote Adapt, 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, blurbed – Verso, San Francisco Chronicle, Cinema Retro, bivoulab, StudyHall.xyz,

fellowships, support etc. – Bread Loaf, GrubStreet, The Writers’ Grotto