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Amy Spangler

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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).

Articles by Amy Spangler

An illustration of a girl in a red and white tutu standing on the back of a white horse in front...
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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
March marks the end of the long dry season in Rio. It’s the month when the tropical rains begin, rains that persist for days, nights,weeks. A huge army clad in black suddenly spreads over the horizon;…
Translated from Turkish by Amy Spangler