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Amy Spangler

Contributor

Amy Spangler

Amy Spangler was born in Ohio (USA) in 1978. She first came to Turkey as a high school American Field Service exchange student in 1994. She returned to the U.S. to pursue her bachelor's degrees in Near Eastern and Classical Archaeology and German Language and Literature at Bryn Mawr College, from which she graduated in 1999...

. Spangler returned to Turkey in 1999, where she worked as an English teacher and freelance translator before being hired by Çitlembik Publications in 2001 as the fledgling company's publications coordinator and rights manager. Spangler left Çitlembik in 2004 to establish her own copyright and literary agency, AnatoliaLit. In addition to her work as a literary and copyright agent, Spangler continues to work as a translator, translating for various periodicals and feminist NGO's in Turkey. She is also the translator of Asli Erdogan's novel, The City in Crimson Cloak (Soft Skull, 2007) and co-editor (with Mustafa Ziyalan) and translator of Istanbul Noir (Akashic Books, 2008).

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Tante Rosa, Would-be Horse Acrobat

By Sevgi Soysal

Rosa would no longer be falling off of horses. Instead, she would bag the manure of the circus animals and sell it to villagers.

Translated from Turkish by Amy Spangler

From “City in Crimson Cloak”

By Asli Erdogan

A huge army clad in black suddenly spreads over the horizon; it approaches at a gallop, full speed, and attacks just like that, without warning.

Translated from Turkish by Amy Spangler

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Amy Spangler

Amy Spangler

Articles by Amy Spangler

Tante Rosa, Would-be Horse Acrobat

From “City in Crimson Cloak”