Öykü Tekten

is a poet, translator, archivist, and editor. She is a founding member of Pinsapo Press, an art and publishing collective devoted to work in and about translation, and serves as a contributing editor and archivist with Lost & Found: The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative. Her translations include Separated from the Sun by İlhan Sami Çomak (Smokestack Books) and Selected Poems by Betül Dünder (Belladonna*), and Earthly Conditions by Birhan Keskin (World Poetry Books). She is the general editor of the Kurdish Poetry Series at Pinsapo Press and coeditor of the annual Best Literary Translations Anthology from Deep Vellum.