Fatma Karabıyık Barbarosoğlu was born in 1962 in Afyon. She gained her B.A. degree in Philosophy from Istanbul University in 1984. The title of her master’s thesis is “Assessing the Sufi Education;” she gained her PhD with a thesis called “The Relationship between Fashion and Perception within the Modernization Process” in 1994. She was selected “Story Writer of the Year” by the Turkish Writers’ Association in 2001.