Ayşe Papatya Bucak is the author of The Trojan War Museum and Other Stories which was awarded the Spotlight Award by the Story Prize. Her writing has been published in a variety of journals including One Story, Bomb, The Iowa Review, and Guernica, as well as being reprinted in the O. Henry and Pushcart Prize anthologies. She was born in Istanbul, Turkey and is an associate professor at Florida Atlantic University.
