Cecile Popp Mangtay is a Canadian educator and contributor to the 2019 anthology Expat Sofra (Alfa). Her essays have appeared in The Globe and Mail and literary magazines including the fall 2025 issue of Queens Quarterly. She is an MFA candidate in Creative Nonfiction at the University of King’s College. After almost two decades living in Turkey, she is now acclimatizing to life in Peterborough, Ontario, with her husband and their three sons. She teaches at Trent University and is writing a memoir about her family’s history of exile and migration and its impact on her life.