Gaye Boralıoğlu took her undergraduate and graduate degrees in philosophy and logic at the Faculty of Literature at Istanbul University. She worked as a journalist, copywriter and scriptwriter. She is the author of Hepsi Hikâye, Meçhul, Aksak Ritim, İçimdeki Ses, Mübarek Kadınlar, Dünyadan Aşağı, Alâmetler Kitabı and Haysiyet, which she co-authored with Ümit Kıvanç. Her book Aksak Ritim was awarded 2011 Notre Dame de Sion Literature Mention Prize, Mübarek Kadınlar 2015 Yunus Nadi Short Story Prize, and Dünyadan Aşağı 2019 Duygu Asena Novel Prize.