Andrew Wessels

I’m a writer, translator, editor, book designer, and teacher. My first book is A Turkish Dictionary, published by 1913 Press. Semi Circle, a chapbook of my translations of the Turkish poet Nurduran Duman, was published by Goodmorning Menagerie. Find out more about me here.

• Two translations of Nurduran Duman in Turkish Poetry Today 2017
• “The Power to Trace Power: On Suzy Hansen’s ‘Notes on a Foreign Country'” at Los Angeles Review of Books
• “4. Verse” a translation from Nurduran Duman’s Neynur series at Kenyon Review
• “What I’m Reading Now…” at Tarpaulin Sky
• “[Lying in folds…]” from That Sunshiny Field at The Enchanting Verses Literary Review
• “Some Affinities: Documenting the Past” on Francis Alÿs, Aslı Çavuşoğlu, and Scramble for the Past: A Story of Archaeology in the Ottoman Empire, 1753-1914 at Entropy
• “Some Affinities: The Language of Embodiment” on three new books by Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo, Nik De Dominic, and Gillian Olivia Blythe Hamel at Entropy
• “Loving—And Leaving—Turkey in the Midst of Upheaval” on Istanbul, elections, global politics, xenophobia, publishing a book amid transition, and on a search for home at Literary Hub
• “Some Affinities: Alder and Elder” on two new books by Wendy Burk and James Meetze at Entropy
• A Turkish Dictionary, my first book published by 1913 Press
• “All of These Are Afterthoughts” on the Turkish coup attempt, Istanbul, and Bilge Karasu’s A Long Day’s Evening for the 2016 Les Figues Read-a-thon
• Three translations from Nurduran Duman’s Neynur series at Asymptote