Nazli Koca [Guest host: Jeff Alessandrelli]

Guest host Jeff Alessandrelli talks with Nazli Koca about growing up in Turkey, finding a writing community in Berlin, developing a life through writing, coming to the US for an MFA, writing her debut novel THE APPLICANT (Grove Atlantic, 2023), using the diary form, fictionalizing the autobiographical, the novel's release at the time of the earthquake in Turkey, and more.

Nazli Koca is the author of the novel The Applicant (Grove Atlantic, 2023). She is the recipient of grants from the Nanovic Institute, Soham Dance Space, and United States Artists. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Threepenny Review, BookForum, Second Factory, The Chicago Review of Books, and books without covers, among other outlets. 

Podcast theme: DJ Garlik & Bertholet's "Special Sause" used with permission from Bertholet.