Çağla Arıbal (1993, Turkey) is a writer, poet, and lecturer who uses text to navigate the interstices of loss and reconstruction, allowing narratives to dissolve and reconstitute a literary self. Her work examines the impermanence of cities and identities through the lens of personal and collective memory. Through poetry and prose, Çağla explores how individuals self-vanish and re-emerge, crafting a multilingual space where vanished cities and forgotten languages speak once more. Her work reflects the resilience and transformation inherent in displacement and exile, ultimately creating a whisper game that presents the words as they reach us at the very end.
Arıbal has been published and anthologized in several international magazines, including First Page, Textur, and Stadsprachen. In 2023, she won the Best Short Fiction Prize from the Oxford Review of Books, with her award-winning story featured as a chapter in her upcoming novel, BERLIN, FALLING UPRIGHT.
During the residency, Arıbal will focus on her new novel.