She studied Turkish Language and Literature in Erzurum. She has always lived in this city except for four years in university. In 2006, she received the Turkish Writers Union's story award with her story Cam Irmağı, Taş Gemi. She has been publishing stories, essays, novels and reviews since 1997. Numerous scientific articles, essays and stories have been published in various journals. Nazan Bekiroğlu, who has been working as a faculty member in the Turkish education department opened at Karadeniz Technical University since 1998, became a professor on May 4, 2001. She published her first book, Nun Tales, in 1997.

She became an associate professor with her work on the poet Nigar Hanım (1995). She started working as a lecturer in the same department. She completed her doctorate on Technical Analysis of Halide Edib Adıvar's Novels, which she continued under the direction of Orhan Okay, in 1987. After working as a high school teacher for four years, she entered Karadeniz Technical University Fatih Education Faculty Turkish Language and Literature Education Department as a lecturer (1985). She received encouragement and support from her teacher Orhan Okay in the development of both her artistic and academic personality. She reflected this to some extent in her early stories. During her student years, she was in pursuit of folk literature and Central Asian aesthetics.

After completing her primary and secondary education in Trabzon, she went to Erzurum and graduated from Atatürk University, Faculty of Literature, Department of Turkish Language and Literature (1979). Her father became the hero of the story 'Inside a Pain'. Her father passed away when she was 14 years old. Her father was the owner of a local newspaper called 'Target' and was interested in Ottoman history as well as literature. She was the youngest of three children born to a family with an interest in literature. Nazan Bekiroğlu (born ) is a Turkish novelist and academician.

Nar Ağacı by Nazan Bekiroğlu