Ayşegül Savaş

Ayşegül Savaş is a Turkish writer who publishes mainly in American literary media.

She was raised in Turkey and Denmark, then attended Middlebury College in Vermont. She graduated in 2007. She worked as a staff writer on ''The Middlebury Campus'', writing often for the paper's arts section. She majored in sociology and anthropology. During her years at Middlebury she studied abroad in Russia (Yaroslavl) and France (Paris). She received an MFA at the University of San Francisco. Savaş teaches at the Sorbonne. Among authors who have influenced her, she names Patrick Modiano, Georgi Gospodinov, and Enrique Vila-Matas. Provided by Wikipedia