Ayse Papatya Bucak

Ayse Papatya Bucak

Ayşe Papatya Bucak teaches in the MFA program at Florida Atlantic University. Her prose has been published in a variety of magazines, including Kenyon Review, Prairie Schooner, Creative Nonfiction, Brevity, and The Rumpus. Her short fiction has been selected for the O. Henry and Pushcart Prizes. She is a contributing editor for the literary journal Copper Nickel.

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Letters from the Fiction Editors: “There is Only Us”

I think sometimes writers conflate short stories with small stories. Stories have to be focused and quick, critics seem to suggest. But what I love about short stories is just how big they can be within a small space. How they can implicate everybody while being about somebody. The stories in this issue of Aster(ix) are big stories told in small spaces, by writers from all over the world.

I Cannot Explain My Heart

Love and people are complicated, and “I Cannot Explain My Heart” knows this in every…

Microeditorial: Am I White?

  Part One It is seventh grade, and my English teacher, in the middle of…

Mike Rastiello
Microeditorial: The History of Girls, Part II

My grandmother was a reader, my great-grandmother was a reader, my mother is a reader,…

The History of Girls

While we waited we were visited by the ghosts of the girls who had already…

Microeditorial: I Am Not Muslim But

I am not a Muslim, but on my nüfus kâğıdı, the Turkish identity papers, as…