Pelin Turgut is a Brighton-based writer, facilitator and storyteller. Her belief in the transformative power of stories underlies everything she does. She co-founded the !f Istanbul International Independent Films Festival and !f Sundance Institute Screenwriters Lab. She was a correspondent for publications such as TIME and The Independent. She is a faculty member at London-based Escape the City, teaching on the Career Change and Startup Accelerator programs. The English translation of her first book ‘Secrets of a Vanishing Country’, came out last month.