Berna Kahraman is currently based in Istanbul. She writes in English and Turkish, often working at the intersection of
personal memory, cultural inheritance, and formal inquiry. Her poetry moves between intimacy and abstraction,
drawing on lived experience while engaging myth, philosophy, and experimental approaches to voice and
structure. She is the author of Ways to Survive (2020) and Kabul (2024).
A Dictionary of Love is her second poetry collection in English.
personal memory, cultural inheritance, and formal inquiry. Her poetry moves between intimacy and abstraction,
drawing on lived experience while engaging myth, philosophy, and experimental approaches to voice and
structure. She is the author of Ways to Survive (2020) and Kabul (2024).
A Dictionary of Love is her second poetry collection in English.
