Defne Saricetin is a writer, editor, and creative consultant based in London. She has also spent time in Paris, where she earned her MFA in Fiction from New York University. Her work has appeared in How to Be a Tastemaker, published by Gestalten, as well as in Semaine, Vogue, and other publications. Currently, she is working on her debut novel and writing criticism and essays on literature, culture, art, desire, mythology, and language from her studio in Notting Hill.
Defne has interviewed public figures including Boris Johnson, Emma Dabiri, Katy Hessel, Mickalene Thomas, Fergus Henderson, and many others for both print and broadcast. She has contributed features on politics, arts and culture to publications in Turkish and English; created the Vogue Book Club for Vogue Türkiye, a monthly curation of literary fiction in translation; produced a series on AI and the future of creative industries for Kapital Media; and consulted on How to Be a Fashion Revolutionary, a two-part documentary on sustainability in the fashion industry.
She is a contributing editor at Wonderflaw, and mentors graduate and undergraduate students at the University of the Arts London, where she received her bachelor’s degree in journalism with first-class honours. She was also a keynote speaker at Voices in Publishing and served as editor for an issue of Artefact shortlisted for Stack Awards’ Student Magazine of the Year. Before founding her own company, she worked at British Vogue, Samsung, Newsflare, MatchesFashion, Turkcell, and Somerset Studios.
Defne is particularly interested in collaborations that address inequalities in the arts, education, mental health, and neurodivergence—and is always happy to discuss taste, the ancient world, and Mesopotamian mythology.
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