hasret eleby
Fiction at the border of languages, bodies, and silence.
Fiction at the border of languages, bodies, and silence.
Born and raised in Germany by Turkish immigrant parents, Hasret's work centers multigenerational stories of Turkish immigrant families, queer Muslim lives, and the ways desire, silence, and bureaucratic systems shape who gets to exist and how.
Her short fiction appears in The Rumpus (March 2026) and Seventh Wave (June 2026). She is currently at work on her first novel, The Shapes You Leave Behind.
Hasret holds an MFA in Fiction from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and is a PhD student in Creative Writing at Texas Tech University.
The Shapes You Leave Behind follows Gülsün and her two daughters — half-sisters raised apart, each unaware the other exists — across three decades of one family's migration between a small Anatolian village and the Turkish enclaves of Germany. When the sisters finally meet as young women, neither knowing their connection, they fall in love. A novel about inheritance and erasure: the queer desire one generation buries to survive, and the way it surfaces anyway in the next.
The Rumpus Revel: Feminist as Fuck
AWP 2026 · Baltimore · Reading alongside Roxane Gay, Patricia Smith, Mitchell Jackson & Amber Tamblyn
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