Selen Ozturk is a San Francisco-based writer born in Istanbul. Evergreen Review, Necessary Fiction, minor literature[s], Hobart, SF Chronicle, SFGATE, and more. Support from Bread Loaf, GrubStreet, more; philosophy degree from UC Berkeley.

Selen Ozturk is a San Francisco-based writer born in Istanbul. Evergreen Review, Necessary Fiction, minor literature[s], Hobart, SF Chronicle, SFGATE, and more. Support from Bread Loaf, GrubStreet, more; philosophy degree from UC Berkeley.

Selen Ozturk is a San Francisco-based writer born in Istanbul. Evergreen Review, Necessary Fiction, minor literature[s], Hobart, SF Chronicle, SFGATE, and more. Support from Bread Loaf, GrubStreet, more; philosophy degree from UC Berkeley.

fiction

What the Body Can Do – Expat Press (2025)Hole - Expat Press (2025)Pesto – Vol. 1 Brooklyn (2025)Cancer – Split Lip (2025)Attendant – minor literature[s] (2025)Is There Still Gold In the American River? – Necessary Fiction (2024)Passenger – Hobart (2024)Honest – Hobart (2024)We Did It When You Bled – Hobart (2024)Binoculars - Ghost City Press (2025)All That is Solid Melts Into Wind – Where Meadows (2024)


poems

Plums - One / Jacar Press (2025)We Drove – Spectra Poets (2025)Valentine’s Card – Spectra Poets (2025)Tiebreak – Sport Literate (2024, print)two poems - Hobart (2025)three poems – Evergreen Review (2024)three English-Provencal translations of Arnaut Daniel – La Piccioletta Barca (2024)two poems – California Quarterly (2024)two poems – Haight Ashbury Literary Journal (2024, print)poems – Ginosko (2024)poems – MONDAY (2021, print)


selected crit

The Möbius Book | Catherine Lacey - Full Stop (2025)American Thighs | Elizabeth Ellen - Beyond the Last Estate (2025, print)two plays reviewed – SF Chronicle (2023)greening California’s schoolyards – SFGATE / 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 the world's only exclusive print history of Turksploitation cinemamovies, music, books – PopMatters (2022)two 1970 student protest films – Senses of Cinema (2022)visual arts reviews – Whitewall (2022) incl. San Francisco exhibition reviews; a Friday art world party column; international exhibitions e.g. Venice Biennale, the Recontres d’Arles, Paris Mens’ Fashion Week, Milan Mens’ Fashion Week; burgeoning NFT and VR beat; interviews with Tourmaline, Milagros, Brett Cook, Koen Vanmechelen, Nicolas Bourriaud, Ahmet Güneştekin, Ignasi Monrealarts reporting – The Daily Californian (2022)How Now, Brown Cow – The Oxonian Review (2022)All That Form Allows – Bayou Magazine (2022, print)Rothko Chapel – Wilderness House Literary Review (2022, print)Arcosanti – Archetype (2022)Fabricated Ruins – Synchronized Chaos (2022)reviewing Bill McKibben and Barry Lopez – Stone Pier Press (2022)reporting for ~2,000 community outlets through a national newswire (2022 – )


MISC

wrote ADAPT (2024), short movie about the long-term benefits of psychopathy in the corporate world – Official Selection of Sacramento International Film Festival; selected for LA Independent Women Film Awardsquoted, covered, interviewed, blurbed – Verso, SF Chronicle, Cinema Retro, bivoulab, StudyHall.xyz