Özgecan Kesici-Ayoubi

bio

Özgecan Kesici-Ayoubi (she/her) was born in Munich to Kazakh-Turkish parents. After spending a substantial part of her adult life in Dublin, she now lives in Berlin.

For her debut novel, Silver is Lighter, a historical female epic, she was awarded a 2022 Berlin Senate Literature Work Stipend.

She is represented by Brian Langan (Storyline Literary Agency).

She is the recipient of an Irish Arts Council Agility Award and the Literature Bursary for her poetry. Her work has been published in Banshee Press, Gorse, and Poetry Ireland Review. Her translations have appeared in Asymptote, Sand Journal and Magma Poetry.

She is the English-language translator of Prinzenbad (originally Elif Verlag, 2022) by Ozan Zakariya Keskinkılıç (Broken Sleep Books, 2026).

Özgecan holds a PhD in Sociology from University College Dublin on the Kazakh Alash Movement, 2017.

She speaks Kazakh, Turkish, English, German, French, and Russian and she is currently working on her second novel.

Feel free to reach out at ozgecan.kesici (at) gmail (dot) com or on instagram.