Ayten Tartici is a writer, literary critic, scholar and translator. Her essays have appeared in The Atlantic, The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, Slate and The Yale Review, among other publications. She is a 2025-2026 Writer-in-Residence at the James Merrill House.
She holds a BA in Government & Comparative Literature from Harvard and a PhD in Comparative Literature from Yale, where she was awarded the John Addison Porter Prize for best scholarship of general human interest in university-wide competition and the Gordon Barber Memorial Prize for poetry. She was named an American Council of Learned Societies Emerging Voices Postdoctoral Fellow at Georgetown, where she served as a board member at the Georgetown Humanities Initiative. She has also taught as a lecturer in the English and Comparative Literature departments at Columbia University and the Cooper Union.
She is an editorial consultant for 212 Magazine, where she hosts an interview series with contemporary poets. She also serves as a screening committee member in the documentary section for the Peabody Awards since 2020 and for DC/DOX, a film festival dedicated to promoting documentary film. She lives in New York with her husband and daughter.
LITERARY REPRESENTATION: For all writing inquiries, please contact Wylie Agency.
Other general inquiries: ayten [dot] tartici [at] gmail [dot] com