Fatma Cihan Akkartal

Fatma Cihan Akkartal was born in Istanbul in 1985. Having completed her master's degree in Cultural Studies she worked in various areas of the publishing industry and worked as event coordinator at the Istanbul Tanpınar Literature Festival. As a film critic, she has been writing for various print and online publications, especially Altyazı Cinema magazine, since 2004. She translated texts of various authors such as E.A. Poe, H.P. Lovecraft, Ambrose Bierce, Robert W. Chambers into Turkish. canavarfirarda.com, her blog where she compiles her articles focusing on "fantastique" genres such as horror and science fiction, has been online since 2018.