Who's Fide ERKEN? She was born in Bursa,in 1967. She spent the first seven years of her childhood in Trilye, a pretty village of Mudanya. Then she came to Bursa with her family. She finished primary, secondary and high schools in Bursa. After high school she attended the department of Industrial Engineering in Middle East Technical University. After finishing the prep and first class there she left that school and entered the department of English in Uludag University. She was graduated from that school in the year 1991. She's still been working as an English teacher in Bursa. Fide Erken says that poetry is in people's nature and that she first was tempted by this emotional current in primary school. She stepped the beginning leading her to further points in poetry by having two awards in poetry competitions when she was in high school. Some of her poems were first published in "Öner" art magazine and in a local newspaper journal. She's been taken attention with her English poems for some years. Her poems are published in some internet sites and magazines. The fluency in her poems she writes integrating love of poeple and nature determinates her place in the poetry world. Fide Erken is married and has two daughters.

7 of my poems appeared in 'World's Strand',an international anthology of poetry.

fide.erken
my poems in Turkish and English

poemsofme
my new site in preparation