YILMAZ DEMİR

He was born in the Soğukçam village of Samsun’s Alaçam district. He went to Soğukçam Primary School, and he spent his high school years in the Alaçam Anatolian High School. Despite he was entitled in 2002 to enroll in the Public Administration Section of the Department for Economics and Administrative Sciences of Abant Izzet Baysal University, due to economical reasons he couldn’t enter for that university education.  He dropped the Public Administration Section of the Anatolian University’s Open Education Department in 2005 when he was in his second year of studying. He graduated from the Business Management Section of the Anatolian University Open Education Department in 2008. In 2010 though, he earned his diploma from the Anatolian University’s Open Education Department (Economics Section).

Since 2004 he has been working as a government employee, and he has been posted first in Istanbul, then Hakkari and now in Ordu.

His poems appeared in the Varlık (Existence) Magazine’s May 2011 issue.