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Born and raised in Turkey, hülya n. yılmaz [sic] is a seasoned college professor who has recently retired from The Pennsylvania State University, USA. After earning her doctoral degree from The University of Michigan, she has settled in North America. Her service for academia spans over forty years during which she has designed and taught special topic courses involving comparative literature subject matters, including women’s literature and film within the Islamic context, non-western feminisms, literary reflections on cross-cultural influences in prominent West-European entities, Sufism –the mystical tradition of Islam and the impact of Rumi’s Sufi poetry on the 19^th and 20^th century German literature. In addition to her numerous presentations at national and international conferences, she has authored Das Ghasel des islamischen Orients in der deutschen Dichtung / The Ghazal of the Muslim Orient in German Literature, which is an extensive book of scholarly research on the literary influence of the Muslim East upon western Europe with a concentrated focus on Germany between the 19^th and 21^st centuries. Her analysis of Snow, the 2006 Nobel Prize of Literature recipient Orhan Pamuk’s “only political novel” (per Pamuk’s own words in an interview) through the work’s examination under the lenses of Sufism has as an invited book chapter, “The Imagined Exile: Orhan Pamuk in His Novel Snow” in Global Perspectives on Orhan Pamuk (pp. 109-124), published by Palgrave Macmillan US in 2012.      

hülya [sic] is Co-Chair and Director of Editing Services at Inner Child Press International and a literary translator between English, German and Turkish in either direction. Like her creative writings, also her literary translations epitomize her three sources of creative thirst – learning, teaching and writing. She is a long-time member of both, the Academy of American Poets and the Editorial Freelancers Association.

yılmaz [sic] has authored Trance, a collection of poems in English, German and Turkish – a work that incorporates her own translations of her non-English poems and Aflame. Memoirs in Verse, and co-authored An Aegean Breeze of Peace with Demetrios Trifiatis, a retired professor of Philosophy from Greece. Her fourth book, this and that is pending publication. She has presented some of her poetic work in various countries outside the U.S., including Kosovo, Canada, Jordan and Tunisia. The Year of the Poet is an international anthology to which hülya contributes every month with her poems. Her poetry has been published in an excess of fifty-eight anthologies of global endeavors. Two of her poems were distinguished on April 15, 2017 through inclusion in a U.S.-wide poetry exhibition that is the second in the nation –TelePoem Booth, a permanent public art installation in her hometown, State College, PA. On May 25, 2018, WIN – the Writers International Network of British Colombia, Canada honored hülya with a poetry award.

She is currently working on four book-length literary manuscripts: Toruncanlarıma. For my Grandchildren, poetry in English and Turkish with her own translations of the Turkish poems; a female in the third space, poetry in English; homeland, poems in Turkish with her own English translations, and hülya’s tales of Turkey, a collection of short stories.

hülya finds it vital for everyone to understand a deeper sense of self and writes creatively to attain and nourish a comprehensive awareness for and development of our humanity.