Hardy Griffin has published in Assisi, the Washington Post, and American Letters & Commentary, and contributed a chapter to Writing Fiction (Bloomsbury, 2003). English and Turkish versions of his story “Baba” were featured in the 2002 Istanbul Biennial in the collection Strange Intimacies / Tuhaf Yakınlıklar. He lives in Istanbul and is completing his PhD dissertation on Kurt Vonnegut and Aziz Nesin at Boğaziçi University.