Ece Temelkuran is one of Turkey's best-known journalists and political commentators. She graduated from Ankara University Faculty of Law in 1995. She has written for the Turkish newspapers Milliyet and Habertürk, as well as New Left Review, Le Monde, The New Statesman, and The Guardian. She is the author of 12 books of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, including Deep Mountain: Across the Turkish-Armenian Divide, and Book of the Edge. Her latest novel, Women Who Blow On Knots, will be published in 30 countries.