Writer Sema Kaygusuz was born in 1972 in Samsun, Turkey. A wide range of folktales, legends, and stories are her greatest sources of inspiration. In 1994, Kaygusuz moved to Istanbul, where she still resides. In 2009, the results of a literary poll conducted by the leading literary journal Notos placed Sema Kaygusuz at the top of the list of ‘writers who will be most influential in Turkish Literature’.