Nurduran Duman is a Turkish poet who lives in Istanbul. Her books include Yenilgi Oyunu, the 2005 Cemal Sureya Poetry Award winner, and Mi Bemol. Semi Circle, a chapbook of her poems translated into English, was published in the United States in 2016 and further translations can be found in Asymptote Journal, Colorado Review, Faultline, Interim, and Eleven Eleven etc. journals. Her poems also have been translated into and published in Finnish, Bulgarian, Romanian, Slovak, French, German and Occitan. She is a member of Turkish PEN, and teaches the course “Sociological Analysis in Turkish Literature” at Bacheşehir University.