Yankı Enki was born in Istanbul in 1980. After graduating from Istanbul Bilgi University Department of Economics, he got his masters degree from the department of Cultural Studies at the same university with a thesis that he wrote on Gothic literature. He worked as a redactor, an editor and a publishing director in various magazines and publishing houses. His book titled “The Place Where The Mask Fell”, which includes his articles on horror literature, was published by İthaki Publishing in 2017.