Leylâ Çolpan is a poet, translator, and undergraduate CREaTE Fellow at the University of Pittsburgh, where ze has won awards for poetry and fiction. Hir work centers the Turkish-American diaspora, biracialism and bilingualism, queer Sufism, and queer folk traditions. Hir poetry appears most recently in Recenter Press Poetry Journal and Red Queen Literary Magazine. You can follow hir on Twitter @autogalatea.