A few things about Deniz

I'm Deniz — a reader, a watcher, and a habitual looker-at-things. I live in Istanbul, where the light off the Bosphorus has a way of making the most ordinary morning look like a film still, and where I'm forever the first one up: the best sentences, I've found, tend to arrive before the city fully wakes. I studied Sociology at Boğaziçi University, which turned out to be a long and formal excuse to stay curious about why people do what they do — and that curiosity is really what this whole journal is made of, whether I'm standing too long in front of a painting, rewatching a quiet film for its light, turning a good coat over in my hands, or disappearing three chapters deep into something Russian. When I'm not reading or wandering a gallery I'm usually moving — a run, a long walk, anything to balance all the sitting still — and, improbably, I could talk you through the architecture of a really good salad. Deniz is written from the sofa, with love, and I'm glad you're here.

Lives in

Istanbul, Türkiye

Studied

Sociology, Boğaziçi University

Kept hours

Reliably an early riser

Off the page

Galleries, long runs, a very good salad