Demet Divaroren was born in Adana, Turkey, and migrated to Australia with her family at six months old. She is an author of short and long fiction, as well as non-fiction. Her writing has appeared in Island magazine, The Age, The Big Issue, and the New Australian Stories anthology. She co-edited the award-nominated collection Coming of Age: Growing up Muslim in Australia.
Demet's young adult novel - Living on Hope Street - was nominated for the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for young adult fiction and won the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards (Young Adult category) in 2018.
Demet has a diploma in professional writing and editing from Victoria University.