Tuğrul Tanyol was born in Istanbul in 1953. He studied in high schools and Saint Joseph Kabataş Erkek Lisesi, majoring in Sociology at the prestigious Bosphorus University in 1977 and obtained a doctorate from the University of Istanbul. Currently she teaches at Yeditepe again in Istanbul. She began writing poetry in the seventies, but he made his debut in the next decade with the publication of the collection Elinden Tutun Günü (Keep the day by the hand, 1983). His second book, Ağustos Dehlizleri (Labyrinths of August, 1985) received the poetry award Behçet Necatigil. Translated into many languages, regularly participates in international festivals, particularly in South America, where his anthology
Los Laberintos de agosto y otros poemas (2003) was met with enthusiasm.
In addition to poetry, Tuğrul Tanyol has published numerous interventions of literary theory and criticism, recently collected in the book İyi siir Koalisyonu (The coalition of good poetry, 2015), and was among the promoters of literary magazines that have had a profound impact on panorama of Turkish poetry from the eighties to the present. His latest collection, Gelecek Günlerin Sarabi (The wine of the days ahead, 2015) received the prestigious poetry prize Metin Altıok 2016.