Müesser Yeniay

WHEN I SLEPT IN A ROSE PETAL
Selected Poems

ISBN-13: 978-0939378135

Edited by Gjekë Marinaj, PhD
Cover design by Timothy Brian McKee

Translated by
Müesser Yeniay

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About Müesser Yeniay

Müesser Yeniay is a Turkish poet, translator, and author active in the international world of literature. She was born in Izmir, Turkey, in 1984, and acquired a Master’s degree in Turkish literature from Bilkent University and a degree from Ege University in English Language and Literature. She is currently pursuing a PhD in Turkish literature at Bilkent University, Ankara.

Müesser has won several literary awards, including the Yunus Emre (2006), Homeros Attila Ílhan (2007), Ali Riza Ertan (2009), and Enver Gökçe (2013). She was also nominated for the Pushcart Prize 2016 by Muse Pie Press in the United States. Müesser’s poems have appeared in the following magazines: Actualitatea Literara, Revista Luceafarul (Romania), The Voices Project, The Bakery, Sentinel Poetry, Yellow Medicine Review, Shot
Glass Journal, Poesy, Shampoo, Los Angeles Review of Books, Apalachee Review (USA and England); Kritya, Shaikshik Dakhal, Platform (India); Casa Della Poesia, Libere Luci, I poeti di Europe in Versi e il lago di Como (Italy); Poeticanet, Poiein (Greece); Revue Ayna, Souffle, L’oiseau de feu du Garlaban (France); Al Doha (Qatar); Tema (Croatia); Dargah (Persia); and Ngu’o’iHanoi (Vietnam).

In 2015, she was a writer resident in the OMI Arts Center, Ledig House, in New York. Müesser is the editor of the literature magazine Şiirden (of Poetry).