Will Washburn (b. 1977) grew up in New York City, earning a BA in classics from Columbia University. He has lived in Istanbul for fourteen of the past twenty years, working first as an EFL teacher and then as a translator. His translations of Turkish authors Murathan Mungan, Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar, and Aziz Nesin have appeared in Asymptote, Exchanges, and Turkoslavia.