Selen Ozturk is a San Francisco-based writer of poetry, nonfiction, and fiction. Her work appears or is forthcoming in publications including Evergreen Review, Hobart, California Quarterly, Bayou Magazine, San Francisco Chronicle, SFGATE, Senses of Cinema, and Bright Lights Film Journal, and has received support from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. She holds a philosophy degree from UC Berkeley, and works as a journalist and the research director of a newswire. Find her work at freeverse.blog.