A. Papatya Bucak
A. Papatya Bucak has published stories, poems, and essays in a variety of literary magazines, including The Iowa Review, Glimmer Train
, Prairie Schooner, Pank and The Fairy Tale Review. Her short story, “The History of Girls,” originally published in Witness, was selected for the 2013 PEN/O.Henry Prize Stories. She was the recipient of a 2005 Individual Artist’s Fellowship from the State of Florida, and has been a writer-in-residence at Hedgebrook Farm. She was born in Istanbul, Turkey.
She used to, and sometimes still does, keep a blog,
Reading for Writers
(
http://readingforwriters.blogspot.com/
), on technique in works of fiction. Now she keeps a blog for Bedford/St. Martin’s on
Teaching Creative Writing
(http://blogs.bedfordstmartins.com/litbits/author/cwadmin/).
She directs the MFA program.
Some of her work can be found online.
Short-short fiction:
“Me, Then” (http://www.pindeldyboz.com/apbthen.htm)
“Self Portrait, With Birds” (http://www.pankmagazine.com/a-papatya-bucak/)
“Rabbi in a Tea Cup” (http://blipmagazine.net/backissues/2001/bucak-rabbi.html)
Essays:
“I Cannot Explain My Fear” (http://www.creativenonfiction.org/brevity/past%20issues/brev26hotcold/bucak_fear.html)
“Studies for a Drawing in Red” (http://www.creativenonfiction.org/brevity/past%20issues/brev30/bucak_red.html)
“With a Little Help From My Enemies” (http://chronicle.com/article/With-a-Little-Help-From-My/45039)
“Teacher’s Pet” (http://chronicle.com/article/Teacher-s-Pet/46542)
“No Longer Just Visiting” (http://chronicle.com/article/No-Longer-Just-Visiting/45145)
