Mel Kenne Editor & Translator

Mel Kenne is a poet and translator and a founding member of the Cunda International Workshop for Translators of Turkish Literature (CWTTL). Six collections of his poetry have been published, most recently Take and a bilingual collection, The View from Galata. Saliha Paker is a literary translator and professor of translation studies who retired in 2008 from Bogazii University. She founded the CWTTL in 2006, under the sponsorship of the Turkish Ministry of Culture. Amy Spangler is the cofounder and director of AnatoliaLit Agency and the translator of The City in Crimson Cloak by Asli Erdogan and the translator of Noontime in Yenisehir by Sevgi Soysal.