Nazan Bekiroğlu was born in 1957 in Trabzon, in the northeast of Turkey. She has lived in this same city her whole life except for while she was in college. She gained her degree in Turkish language and Literature in Erzurum, in the eastern part of Turkey. She got her PhD in Halide Edip. She is currently a professor at Blacksea Technical University. She is the mother of two daughters.