Şiirsel Taş was born in Istanbul in 1971. She graduated from Istanbul University Faculty of Medicine. She started working as a translator, editor and consultant in medical publishing; and writing children’s literature. She translated the works of Atul Gawande, Gavin Francis and Sherwin Nuland, many fiction and non-fiction books for children. Her novel Sequoiamum’s Doors (Sekoyana’nın Kapıları) was selected for the 2018 White Ravens catalogue.