NURDAN ALADAĞ

Born on March 20, 1971, in Alaçatı, she completed her primary, secondary, and high school education in İzmir. She is a graduate of the Department of Mathematics at Ege University’s Faculty of Science. She has worked as a mathematics teacher in the provinces of Sivas, Eskişehir, and İzmir. Her creative journey, which began with poetry during her high school years, has continued through short stories and essays. Her short stories, poems, essays, book reviews, poetry analyses, interviews, and travel or event journals have been, and continue to be, published in various literary magazines and anthologies. She is a participant in the Veysel Çolak Poetry Workshop, organized by the Karşıyaka Municipality, and a member of the theater group “Tiyatro Hepbiri,” in which she performs a female role in the play “Kahırzaman Kahramanları” (Heroes of the Time of Sorrow). She has also conducted sessions for residents of the Narlıdere Nursing Home in İzmir, where she performed readings of short stories and poems. She organizes workshops for children focused on the Turkish language, creative writing, and poetry. Her stories and poems for children are featured in “Ke Çocuk”, a magazine published by the Kartal Municipality in both digital and print formats. She also participates in the monthly poetry events dedicated to contemporary female poets, organized under the auspices of the Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism in İzmir. She is married and a mother of two daughters.

Short Story Collections:

The Mystery of the Bag (Short Stories, Hayal Publishing – June 2021)

Look at the Wound in Your Heart (Short Stories, Mühür Library – January 2023)

Do Not Leave Me Hopeless (Short Stories, Kekeme Publishing – January 2024)

 Children’s Books:

The Child with a Sparrow’s Heart (Stories with Poems, Na Kil Publishing – March 2025)

Children Lived It, I Wrote It (Short Stories, Tunç Publishing – November 2025)

 Interview Books:

Nurdan Aladağ & Veysel Çolak: Inside Poetry, Inside the Poet

A Conversational Inquiry into Poetics, Klaros Publishing (2026)

 Anthologies and Collections (featuring short stories, essays, or poems):

Conversations on the Poetics of Master Poets (2021, Akdoğan Publishing), Distinguished Memory (2021, Klaros Publishing), The Old-Fashioned Way (2021, Klaros Publishing), The City’s Poetic Shore (2021, Akdoğan Publishing), Letters to My Author (2021, Klaros Publishing), Summer Stories (2021, Kafekültür Publishing), One Poem, Infinite Perception (2022, Akdoğan Publishing), Veysel Çolak: A Word Called Poetry (2022, Akdoğan Publishing), Quarantine Diaries (2022, Ada Books), Republic 100^th Anniversary Short Story Anthology (2023, Akdoğan Publishing), Holding On to Life Stories (2023, İnönü University Publications), Mühür80 (2023, Mühür Kitaplığı), Conversations on the Wings of Poetry (2025, Akdoğan Publishing), Whispering Pens: A Short Story Anthology (2025, Whispering Pens Publications)