Alev Ersan is a poet, translator and artist who has produced performance-installation and installation work in Vancouver and Istanbul. After completing her BA in the department of Western Languages and Literatures at Boğaziçi University, Ersan studied with Miranda Pearson, Betsy Warland and Wayde Compton at The Writer’s Studio at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver and completed her MFA degree at Bard College, New York.
Ersan was a part of the 13th Sharjah Biennial offsite projects with an installation entitled A Room in Three Rites in Istanbul in 2017. She has performed for the shadow performance group Mere Phantoms in 2018 and was commissioned by the artist Tejal Shah for drawing and animation work for dOCUMENTA(13). Her poetry and translation of poetry, and experimental writing have appeared in a number of publications including CanLit, TPT and Morality In Fragments (Witte de With). She has taught special topic courses on experimental writing and contemporary art practices at Boğaziçi University.