Gökçenur Ç. (ÇelebioÄŸlu) was born in Istanbul in 1971. He graduated from the Department of Electrical Engineering at Istanbul Technical University. Since 1990, his poems, essays and translations have been published in several periodicals. He has translated Wallace Stevens, Paul Auster, and an anthology of modern Japanese haiku into Turkish. He is one of the directors of Word Express, an international poetry translation project organized by Literature Across Frontiers. He published two poetry collections titled Her Kitabın El Kitabı (2006) and Söze Mezar (2010).