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Mind Your Luggage! Born in Istanbul, Lüset Kohen Fins continued her work in the United States after publishing City Plus Istanbul magazine between 1997-2009. After launching a high-circulation culture and arts magazine called NYC Food & Mood in New York, she took an active role in promoting Turkey abroad. Lüset Kohen Fins, who wrote her first novel, On Derin Ayak İzi, which is 518 pages long, in English and translated it into Turkish herself, won the HarperCollins International Authonomy gold medal award in 2013 with this book. She published her second novel, Enginar Mevsimi, in 2015, followed by the novels Hasta Bakımıcı, Charlatan, and Dahil. Fins, who has pioneered not only in Turkey but also in the world with his imagination exercises and mind yoga techniques called Metanoia, is a member of the advisory board of the International Crime and Punishment Film Festival, founded with the support of Istanbul University Faculty of Law, and founded the Creative Writing Workshop in 2014 with the aim of bringing new talent to contemporary Turkish literature. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx