Yasemin has been part of Auburn Poets & Writers (APW) for the last nine years. With 30 years in the fashion industry, Yasemin was the pen dressing the fashion column for a local newspaper and the taste buds behind their restaurant reviews. Her poetry has appeared in APW’s anthologies: Grandma’s Bed and Mosaic and was an eruptive force in the group’s 2021 Sydney Writers’ Festival show: ‘How Distance Can Keep Us Together’ and in the 2019 performance ‘We Might As Well Be From Mars’.