Defne Saricetin is a writer, critic, and creative consultant based in London, with time spent in Paris, where she earned her MFA in Fiction from New York University. She currently serves on the selection committee for the National Book Critics Circle's Gregg Barrios Book in Translation Prize, helping shape the longlist and shortlist for the award. She also created the Vogue Book Club for Vogue Türkiye, a monthly curation of literary fiction and non-fiction from around the world. She is currently working on an essay collection, Associations, and her debut novel, Azure.
Her interviews — with figures including Boris Johnson, Emma Dabiri, Katy Hessel, Mickalene Thomas, and Fergus Henderson — span both print and broadcast, and her features on politics, arts, and culture appear in Turkish and English. Recent projects include a series on AI and the future of creative industries for Kapital Media, and creative consulting on How to Be a Fashion Revolutionary, a two-part documentary on sustainability in fashion.
She mentors students at the University of the Arts London, where she read Journalism and graduated with First-Class Honours, and edited an issue of Artefact that was shortlisted for Stack Awards' Magazine of the Year. Defne is particularly drawn to collaborations that address inequalities in the arts and education, and is always happy to talk taste & the ancient world.
To contact Defne: def@deftin.com