Ayaz Orme Muratoglu is a poet, critic, and translator working between Istanbul and New York. From 2022-24, he worked as an audio and technical manager at the Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church, and he curated and edited the 2023-24 chapbook series for the feminist poetry press Belladonna*. His translations, poems and reviews have appeared in the Brooklyn Rail, the Poetry Project Newsletter, Second Factory, Words Without Borders, Trilobite, Landfill, Tagvverk, the Cola Review, Hot Pink Mag, Yalobusha Review,  pan-pan press, Critical Flame, and On the Seawall. He has led poetry workshops at Unnameable Books in Brooklyn, New York and has been a guest lecturer at Brown University and Jewish Currents.