Hasret Eleby

hasret eleby

Fiction at the border of languages, bodies, and silence.

Bio
Hasret Eleby — portrait

Hasret Eleby writes fiction that moves between Germany and its margins — between Turkish and German, between silence and confession, between the official record and the lived one.

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 is forthcoming in Seventh Wave. She is currently at work on her first novel, The Shapes You Leave Behind.

In 2026, she read alongside Roxane Gay, Patricia Smith, Mitchell Jackson, and Amber Tamblyn at The Rumpus Revel: Feminist as Fuck at AWP in Baltimore.

Hasret holds an MFA in Fiction from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and is a PhD student in Creative Writing at Texas Tech University.

Works
"The One Who Pierces Snow"
The Rumpus
March 2026
"The Space Without Name"
Seventh Wave · Issue 19
Forthcoming 2026
The Shapes You Leave Behind
Novel
In progress

Selected Events

The Rumpus Revel: Feminist as Fuck

AWP 2026 · Baltimore · Reading alongside Roxane Gay, Patricia Smith, Mitchell Jackson & Amber Tamblyn

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