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Beldan Sezen is continuously striving to investigate other forms of reading experiences and as such ventures into cross-disciplines such as installation, video, playwright, and sound. For the frauen museum wiesbaden she installed her first graphic novel Zakkum as a giant walk though book and showed her editioned book Iron Bunnies Hop in Santurce, Puerto Rico as a video installation, whispering her inner monologue to the in and out fading images . Her book Snapshots of a Girl was named to the American Library Association's Over the Rainbow List for the best LGBT books for adult readers in 2016. In 2015 she was awarded with a Global Arts Fund Award by the Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice. Sezen has been a resident at the League Residency at Vytlacil, the P-af residency and Djerassi Resident Artists Program. Her editioned books are represented by Booklyn. She lives and works in Amsterdam and NYC.