Aydin Mehmet Ali was born in Cyprus and educated in Cyprus, US and the UK. She is an international education consultant, project manager and award winning writer. At present working as consultant to Hackney Learning Trust, developing a strategy to raise achievement levels of Turkish Speaking young people and to London Metropolitan University, Arts Summer School.

She works in developing multiculturalism and what she calls "projects
without borders" both in the UK and Cyprus. Her work focuses on women and young people and uses multi-media. The way we are - a highly praised and celebrated photographic/ICT project in north and south Cyprus, involved children from different communities, capturing images of their worlds which may be transitory. She is the author of Turkish Speaking Communities & education - no delight and editor of Turkish Cypriot Identity in Literature. Bize Dair/Pink Butterflies, a collection of short stories and poems co-authored with her sister is about memory, childhood, separations and conflict and is due out in Summer 2005. She translates contemporary poetry into English.