Ecem Yücel is an Ottawa-based Turkish writer, poet, and translator. She was born in Istanbul, Turkey, in 1989, and worked as a magazine translator, transcriptionist, and editor in various Turkish magazines of music, travel, and education as well as a book translator for a number of publishing houses before moving to Canada in 2017. Today, a Canadian permanent resident, Yücel holds an MA in World Literatures and Cultures from the University of Ottawa. Her writing has recently appeared or is forthcoming in Salamander Magazine, The Evergreen Review, HAD, Stanchion Zine, Maudlin House, Overheard Literary Magazine, Gone Lawn, Idle Ink, Kissing Dynamite Poetry Journal, The Daily Drunk Magazine, A Thin Slice of Anxiety, Celestite Poetry, Selcouth Station, Autofocus Literary Magazine, Cypress Poetry Journal, Ayaskala Magazine, Wine Cellar Press, Alien Buddha Press, Near Window Zine, Final Girl Bulletin Board, and Boats Against the Current Magazine. Her poetry book The Anguish of an Oyster is available on Amazon, Kobo, and Barnes & Noble.