Eren Orbey
Election Year: 2019
Election Constituency: United States of America
Scholar Status: Scholar Alum
Rhodes Identifier: Massachusetts & Magdalen 2019
Biography
Eren Orbey is a Yale senior with a double major in Computer Science and English Language and Literature. He has worked as a software engineer and as a product manager at Microsoft. He has also won many collegiate and national literary prizes, for writing in both English and French, and is a frequent contributor to the news and culture desks at The New Yorker. As a three-year old, Eren witnessed his father's murder in Ankara, Turkey, an experience that ultimately led to his current book project, which melds memoir, history, and reportage to create a portrait of his father and his father's killer. As a volunteer for 826NYC, he has mentored younger writers and edited anthologies of their work for publication. His aim is to produce art that mines meaning from the trials of trauma.