Publications

Short Stories

Forthcoming       “For the Snake Who Swallowed Her Own Tail” in NAUSIKAE

2022                “What Happens After” in Summer 2022 of Michigan Quarterly Review

2017                “Aviculture” in Volume Spring/Summer 43.2 of Black Warrior Review

2016                “Fish Were Drowning” in Summer 2016 Online of Gulf Coast

2016                “Moving from Istanbul” in Issue #96 of Glimmer Train Stories

Craft Essay

2015                “It’s High School Biology Class All Over Again and Here’s Your Frog. His Name is Kafka” in March 2015 of Glimmer Train Writers Ask

Media & Interviews

2022                Provincetown Independent, “An Interview with Zeynep Özakat”

2017                Sözcü Newspaper (Turkey), “A Turkish Girl’s Success Story in America”

2017                Black Warrior Review, “An Interview with Zeynep Özakat”

Awards & Honors

2021 – 2022     Fiction Writing Fellowship, The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown

2020                Syracuse University Graduate Dean’s Award for Excellence in Research and Creative Work                              

2020                Syracuse University English Department Leonard Brown Prize in Poetry

2019                Syracuse University English Department Shirley Jackson Prize in Fiction

2019                Pushcart Prize Anthology XLIII ‘Special Mention’

2014                1st place winner, December Fiction Open Contest, Glimmer Train