DENİZ DURUKAN

Born in Istanbul, Deniz Durukan has contributed poems, interviews with literary figures, and articles to various literary magazines such as Varlık, Hişt, E, Budala, Başka, Yasakmeyve, Virgül, Kitaplık, Özgür Edebiyat, and Hürriyet Gösteri as well as to the book supplements of the Cumhuriyet and Radikal newspapers.

Also interested in rock music, Durukan published work in this field in magazines such as Öküz, Hayvan, Yüksexses & Karakalem, and Picus, as well as in the Radikal, Cumhuriyet, and Yarın newspapers. She co-authored Turkish Rock 2000 with Güven Erkin Erkal, the first volume in a series on rock music, and subsequently published the music books *Türk Rock 2001* and *İyiler Siyah Giyer*. He released the poetry collections *Şakağına Daya Beni* in 2005 and *Rugan* in 2009. In 2012, he edited and prepared the book Fahriye Abla’dan Çanakkaleli Melahat’a Modern Türk Şiirinde Kadın İmgesi (From Fahriye Abla to  Melahat from Çanakkale: The Image of Women in Modern Turkish Poetry), which comprises analytical essays by twenty-one female poets.