🧿 Perin Gurel is a professor of American Studies and Gender Studies who writes boring scholarly books and articles. She loves nothing more than a good footnote!

But sometimes, her foot slips, and she gets pulled into imaginary lands. She has to weave a ladder of fiction back to reality! Luckily, she has Marjane’s help!

About Us

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A young girl with long dark hair sitting on a wooden bench, wearing a navy blue t-shirt and green pants. She is outdoors with a background of grass and fallen leaves.

🧿 Marjane is a ten-year-old chess player, taekwondo practitioner, and poet.

She published her first book of nature poems, The Change of Seasons: A Young Poet’s Activity Book, at nine years old. It debuted at #1 in the categories of Children’s Poetry, Poetry for Early Learning, and Children’s Composition and Creative Writing. It’s available for FREE to our newsletter subscribers.

Marjane is a huge fantasy fan and reviews new Middle Grade and YA novels here!

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We are from the magical realms of Istanbul, Türkiye, and Indiana, USA.

Galata Tower in Istanbul with seagulls flying against a colorful sunset sky.

 

In Indiana, we live and learn on the ancestral lands of the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi.

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